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…
Book Review
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…
Labor in market, and the mainstream economics
Market and labor in market are crucial questions both to capital and labor. The questions have been discussed and answered by economists, from the mainstream, and also from the camp…
Will the Government Heed This Book That Makes A Strong Case for Justice to Victimized Maruti Workers
Anjali Deshpande and Nandita Haksar have just written a book that simply has to be read by anyone interested in the welfare of industrial workers in India. This is also…
Tale of two workers or workers’ tale
What are workers? Are they human beings? Do they have only a bundle of muscles but, no brains? How do they feel and how do they think? Do they think…
Eduardo Galeano, revolutionary writer, continues to inspire us
Eduardo Galeano was best known for his 1971 book Open Veins of Latin America, which rocketed to the top of US bestseller lists after the Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez presented…
Bhagat Singh: Life and legend
It was, to quote King James Version, “[a] time to be born, and a time to die; [….] A time to love, and a time […] of war […]” It…
The Rise of the Consultant Governing Class
They have become the outsourcing mandarins, consultancy companies which have served to degrade expertise in the public sector while diminishing the quality of services. Along the way, they have charged…
Lenin by Rajan Palme Dutt Book review
‘Lenin’ by Rajani Palme Dutt ,published by Magpie publications,most classically dissects all aspects of the life and Contribution of Lenin. In a most lucid and congealed form it illustrates how…
Work – slavery in exploiting economy
Work is easy. Work is difficult. Work shows a lot. Work hides a lot. Work creates. Work destroys. Work is painless. Work is dreadful. Work brings victory. Work is slavish.…
Once there was a city named Dilli
by Intizar Husain Trans. Ghazala Jamil and Faiz Ullah. Originally published 2003. Yoda Press. INTRODUCTION Dilli tha jis ka Naam is a historical account by Intizar Husain published originally in…
Book Review: A forgotten feminist
GANDHI AUR SARLA DEVI CHAUDHARANI: BARAHA ADHYAY (GANDHI AND SARLA DEVI CHAUDHARANI: TWELVE CHAPTERS) By Alka Saraogi 2023, New Delhi, Vani Prakashan, Pp. 216, Price Rs. 299/- Alka Saraogi (1960-…
Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts – Feminism Inter/Nationalism & Palestine
Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts - Feminism Inter/Nationalism & Palestine. Nada Elia. Pluto Press, 2023. London. Interestingly this work by Nada Elia - Greater Than the Sum of…
Our Knowledge-Based Society
I would like to announce the publication of a new nook, entitled “Our Knowledge-Based Society”. The book may be downloaded and circulated, free of charge, from the following link: https://eacpe.org/content/uploads/2023/02/Our-Knowledge-Based-Society-by-John-Scales-Avery.pdf…
Lives In Acting
A new, freely downloadable, book I would like to announce the publication of a new book, entitled “Lives in Acting”. The pdf file of the book may be downloaded and…
The 1619 Project – A New Origins Story
“The 1619 Project - A New Origins Story”. Hannah-Jones, Nikole et al, Ed. One World, (Random House), New York, 2021. The American narrative - and other stories Most of the…
Imagining Palestine – Cultures of Exile and National Identity
Imagining Palestine - Cultures of Exile and National Identity. Tahrir Hamdi. I. B. Taurus, (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc), London, 2023. [1] In her recent work, “Imagining Palestine”, Tahrir Hamdi has made…
‘Malevolent Republic – A Short History of the New India’ review: Why the India founded in 1947 is dead
Narendra Modi was prime minister of India for five years from 2014-2019 in his first term and his second term began this May; so, readers may ask why this book?…
“Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History” – Expose Ignored Holocausts & Genocides
History ignored yields history repeated, and ignoring genocides and holocausts yields repetition of such atrocities. My book “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial…
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