The book “Essays on the Changing Nature of Indian State” is ready for launch
The book ‘Essays on the Changing Nature of the Indian State’ is a commentary on contemporary India. The book tries to capture such nuances of the changing nature of the…
Book Review
Hindutva Pop: A Review
Can a song trigger a murder?Can a poem spark a riot?Can a book divide a people? These lines are from the back cover of a newly released book by Kunal…
Preface of New Edition of Post-Hindu India by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
This excerpt is being published from the Preface of the book "Post-Hindu India" written for the new edition by the author published here with permission from publishers. The launch of the…
Book Review: Bangladesh’s Seven Governing Periods (1972-20222)
Author: M. Adil Khan, Publisher South Asia Journal ISBN 978-0-9995649-2-9 Hardcover US$ 28.00 BDT 750 185 pages To order the book, please email info@southasiajournal.net The Review M.…
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins
New York: Public Affairs Press, 2023. ISBN: 978 1541788978 (hardcover) This is a fascinating book that invites the attention of all activists around the world. Building off his work, I…
The Voice of Ambu H. Patel, the Freedom Fighter from Kenya, must not be Silenced!
Written for the reprint of Ambu H. Patel (Ed): Struggle for ‘Release Jomo & Colleagues’. Nairobi: Vita Books (Forthcoming). The book, Struggle for Release of Jomo and his Colleagues…
Book Announcement – Changing Nature of Indian State
The book ‘Changing Nature of Indian State’ is a commentary on contemporary India which is witnessing a new political template of 80 versus 20% politics, to make India a majoritarian…
When Farmers Stood Up: Book on the farmers’ protests of 2020
Much before the rise of the nefarious agribusiness, harvesting was a community happening in the U.S. `Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important…
Sanctions, imperialist substitute for military power
Sanction is an old weapon. Warring parties are using the weapon since ages. Today, Lords of the World, the Empire, almost rampantly use this weapon – sanction – to further…
Twilit towns: A review of Transition Town Movement
Crises One can identify the present time as The Age of Crises. “The world system is riddled with crisis.”1 Crises in the areas of finance and banking, and environment-ecology have…
Why Memoirs of This Great Freedom Fighter Need More Attention
Several stories of courage and firm determination of four martyrs of Kakori case have become an important part of the legends of our freedom movement. This case is regarded as…
The Ideological Struggle between Capitalism and Socialism in Kenya, 1960-1970
Two Paths in Kenya. Shiraz Durrani, Vita Books, 2023. Shiraz Durranis book: Two Paths is a crucial work to understand the tragedy of an African liberation being stolen and degraded…
Unapologetically Woman: Insights from Rabboni
“A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.” -Maya Angelou The twenty seven books of the New Testament constitute only a…
A Critic of Civilization
ONE: The Story of the Ultimate Myth by Mansoor Khan Harper Collins India, 2023, Pp. 145 Available at Amazon Rs. 449/- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is a gem of a book! It…
Review of Immanuel Ness’s Migration as Economic Imperialism
The traditional Marxist critique of ideology has understood both the functional and epistemological dimensions of bourgeois ideologue’s claims. This tradition has always emphasized how ideas are both conditioned by the…
Book Review: Building A Just World Order
Alfred De Zayas, Building A Just World Order, Atlanta, GA, USA, Clarity Press, Inc., 2021, pp. ix + 466. ISBN: 978-1-949762-42-6, EBook IBSN: 978-1-949762-43-3. Happiness depends on being free, and…
Tunakataa! Saying ‘No’ to Capitalism and Imperialism in Kenya
Preface to the book by Durrani, Nazmi: Tunakataa! We Say No! Resistance Poems in Kiswahili and English Reflecting Life in Kenya in the 1980s. Forthcoming: Nairobi: Vita Books. [Tunakataa: Kiswahili…
The Bicycle-Selected Writings on Bicycle
These essays and stories about the bicycle have been written since 2017. There are ten essays and two short stories. The essays are divided in two groups – Shorter essays…
The secret of making films and making chutney
'Jalabharadinarathrangal' has been classified as a novel though the label doesn't seem to do justice to the genre. What the author has dished out for readers through this book can…
Book Review: Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky’s ‘The Withdrawal’
Summary and Analysis Last year in the summer of 2022 a wonderful friend named Debbie sent me a copy of Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad’s new book The Withdrawal. A year…
Review: “The Future Is Degrowth” – How to Stop And Replace Terracidal Capitalism
Mindless, blind growth driven by neoliberal capitalism is destroying the Biosphere and the very basis of Humanity’s existence. “The Future is Degrowth. A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism” summarizes…
A Time to Remember the History of Communal Harmony and Unity of Freedom Movement in Mewat
The recent highly unfortunate communal violence in Mewat region has drawn much comment, including appeals for unity and harmony. However enough attention has not been given to the rich tradition…
Book Review: Rohingya of the Arakan: Conflict, Crisis and Solutions
Book Review: Rohingya of the Arakan: Conflict, Crisis and Solutions by Nurul Islam (The Other Press, Kuala Lumpur, Paperback, 1st ed., 2022) The Rohingyas of Myanmar are a stateless people…
Review: “The Palestine Laboratory” By Antony Loewenstein – Apartheid Israel Exports Surveillance Nightmare
Anti-racist Jewish Australian writer Antony Loewenstein’s latest book “The Palestine Laboratory” describes how genocidally racist Apartheid Israel mercilessly uses high technology weapons, fences, and comprehensive surveillance to comprehensively control the…
Exploring the Mystical Depths of Sufi Poetry in Kashmir
Golden Semee Of Ahad Zargar , Translator: Mushtaque Barq Poetry, at its core, serves as a conduit for the expression of one's deepest emotions, a realm where sentiments are…
Busting human trafficking
More than the story of a brave gutsy fourteen- year- old girl, I Kick and I Fly is a testament of conviction, for both the protagonist of the novel, Heera…
Fried fish and flying cheels: It’s not a fantasy
Fantasies are fantasies. But, Credible Fantasies aren’t fantasies. These move around and act within a reality. The characters in the Credible Fantasies by T Vijayendra are real, from reBal life.…
The Clash of Cultures, New Book by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
The whole world knows that the center pin of Hindutva ideology is Brahminism. After a careful study of Indian Islamic history I came to a conclusion that the Hindutva’s strength…
Transition Town Movement: Local Action in the Wake of Global Emergency and Collapse
by T Vijayendra, Usha Rao and Shreekumar We are facing a global emergency and collapse. The emergency is due to the twin crises of global warming and resource depletion. When…
Review: “Rethinking Our World” by Maja Göpel – Too Little Too Late To Save The Planet
“Rethinking our World. An invitation to rescue our future” by political economist Dr Maja Göpel is a well-written, powerful, cogently argued and very useful book that everyone should read. However…
Book Review- Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention and Resistance by Daniel Kovalik
Book Review- Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention and Resistance by Daniel Kovalik Published by Clarity Press, Atlanta GA, USA Many nations in the Americas have suffered from US promoted…
A Straight Arrow in a Crooked Time: Reviewing The Crooked Timber of New India by Parakala Prabhakar
Hyderabad based intellectual and analyst Parakala Prabhakar has given a gift to Indians and India watchers in his new book, The Crooked Timber of New India. It is a gift…
Hindi Cinema and Society
by Bharat Dogra and Madhu Dogra Note—This is a slightly edited version of an extract from the recently published book Hindi Cinema and Society written by Bharat Dogra and Madhu…
Literacy
A book announcement I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which may be downloaded and circulated free of charge from the following link: Here are some…
Credible Fantasies by T Vijayendra
T Vijayendra has just published a new book of short stories with a title, ‘Credible Fantasies’. The blurb reads: 'The central idea of the fantasies presented here is to…
Review of Tom Swanky’s The Smallpox War against the Haida
[S]ettlers in thrall to colonial ideology saw every unfenced meadow as waste land free for the taking, especially the most fertile land supporting native self-sufficiency. — Tom Swanky, The Smallpox…
Book Review: Civil Liberties Movement in India: From Colonial Times to the Present by Nilanjan Dutta
The Civil Liberties Movement in India (CLMI), despite its crucial role and glorious tradition during our freedom struggle as well as in postcolonial India in making democratic principles and constitutional…
Mantras of Peace by Moin Qazi
Review of the book 'Mantras of Peace' by Moin Qazi The world has seen the rise and fall of several civilizations. What was the root cause of their downfall? Denis…
This philosophy professor shows what is wrong with our language, education policy
There are outstanding autobiographies by dalit or Buddhist writers in Marathi. Sharad Baviskar’s acclaimed autobiography Bhoora is very different, it gives you so many insights into issues of language and…
Collected Essays (Volume VII) by John Scales Avery
This book by John Scales Avery, a renowned intellectual and theoretical chemist at the University of Copenhagen, contains a collection of essays and articles discussing the severe problems and challenges…
Norman Solomon’s ‘War Made Invisible’ Repudiates Collusion With War Makers
In this book, Solomon asks why people identify more with the bombers rather than the bombed. Following a string of U.S. “forever wars,” a profusion of well-written, often riveting novels,…
Why Is U.S. Media Blind to American War Atrocities?
On the first day of March 2022, visitors to the New York Times homepage saw a headline across the top of their screens in huge capital letters: ROCKET BARRAGE KILLS…
The Purity Fetish and Middle Class Radicalism: Review and Application of Garrido’s The Purity Fetish
Carlos Garrido’s book The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism is undoubtedly an essential reading for any revolutionary American Marxist who is serious about building socialism. It is an open…
Book Review: The Story of a People’s Movement
(MY MOTHER’S STORY) By Rupesh Anand Patkar 2010, Publication No. 42, Kolhapur, Comrade Govind Pansare Amrit Mahotsav Samiti, Pp. 137, Rs 65/- From the early seventies, in the wake of…
How Empire Fabricates Atrocities
Review of AB Abrams' Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order Another atrocity. Yesterday, the dam holding back the waters for the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station…
Book Review: Marginalised but not Defeated
Marginalised but not Defeated Tarun Kanti Bose Uppal Publishing House Price: 1,295 Year: 2023 Pg: 277 The book, like the author, a seasoned public interest journalist, travels far and wide,…
Brotherhood and Friendship in a time of War- Reflections on The Mercenary, by Jeffrey E. Stern
Salman Rushdie once commented that those who are displaced by war are the shining shards that reflect the truth. With so many people fleeing wars and ecological collapse in our…
Book Review – A Reader on Financial Inclusion
Francis Bacon said some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested. "A reader on Financial Inclusion" by Dr Moin Qazi belongs to…
Grand Delusion – The Rise and Fall of American Ambitions in the Middle East
Grand Delusion - The Rise and Fall of American Ambitions in the Middle East. Steven Simon. Penguin Press, New York, 2023. It should be obvious that U.S. policy in the…
Book Review: A Contemporary Feminist, Marxist And Environmentalist
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM KERALA TO KESLA By Loriette Benjamin “Lorry” Qurate Books Pvt. Ltd, Panaji Goa. 2023, Pp 74, Rs. 300/- Contact: Lorry: 82807 95523 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lorry (Loriette Benjamin) was born…
Exceptionism in US Empire
[S]uffice it to state that the US Guardian Elite are very much of and for the overworld of private wealth. Since the end of World War II, the US Guardian…
Bridging Narratives: Exploring Play
Review by Mitali Chakravarty of Sanjay Kumar’s Performing, Teaching and Writing Theatre: Exploring Play, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing About a hundred years ago, Tagore had tried to close social…
Homo Deus: From Being Masters to Marionettes
Imagine this. You have to travel from one place to another. You have two options. Human driver driven taxi or an-AI-algorithm-controlled automatic taxi. You know the associated traits of each…
Book Review: Renaissance and the 1857 Rebellion in the Hindi region
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BAGAAWAT AUR WAFAADAARI: NAVJAGRAN KE IRD-GIRD (REBELLION AND FAITHFULNESS: IN THE VICINITY OF THE RENAISSANCE) By Vir Bharat Talwar 2023, New Delhi, Vani Prakashan, Pp. 152, Rs. 399/- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------…
Flaming Forest, Wounded Valley-Stories from Bastar and Kashmir By Freny Manecksha
‘Flaming Forest, Wounded valley- stories from Bastar and Kashmir’ is a gripping account with lively narratives of first hand experiences in Bastar and Kashmir, where neo-fascist state repression has simmered…
Time Mustn’t Be Allowed to Run out on Julian Assange
Review of Guilty of Journalism by Kevin Gosztola Despite whatever charges Julian Assange may be accused of, it is well known that the WikiLeaks publisher was targeted for exposing the…
Swapna Liddle’s book on the Fall of the Mughal Empire
Swapna Liddle is not only a very good scholar of the history of Delhi, she is a very good communicator both in her writing and in speaking, one can understand…
A Review of White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams
New York: Public Affairs Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-5417-6829-1 (hardcover) Africa has long been looked at by outsiders as a continent that is hopelessly mired in corruption and incapable of social…
Muslim intellectuals must write about caste within and without Islam: Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
This is a Foreword by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd to a well known book of Ali Anwar called Masawat Ki Jung (Hindi) on caste among Muslims. The English version is now…
Zikr: In the Light and Shade of Time
Zikr: In the Light and Shade of Time (2022). Muzaffar Ali. Penguin Random House India Vintage. New Delhi. Zikr, meaning remembrance, comes out as a finely textured autobiographical narrative of…
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