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Meticulously tracing Gandhi’s political action and philosophy, the book discusses the relevance of non-violence, satyagraha, mass-mobilisation, and Sarvodaya.

Review of Geopolitics in the era of Globalisation — Mapping an Alternative Global Future: The Gandhi approach

Dhananjay Tripathi A former diplomat draws from Gandhian philosophy to present a strong case that there is a solution to some of the most severe international problems

1930: On March 12, Gandhiji led the Salt Satyagraha from Sabarmati Ashram. On April 5, Gandhiji and his team arrived at Dandi, Gujarat where he manufactured salt, broke the Salt Law and started the nationwide Civil Disobedience Movement.

Gandhi in a salt memorial at Dandi

Sudipta Datta Walking from Dandi to Ahmedabad to explore the story of modern Gujarat

Singhvi thinks that lawyers don’t exist to assess or judge their clients. “I respectfully disagree with Gandhiji (who had strong views about who to represent),” he quips.

Noted lawyer Abhishek Singhvi recounts eight significant cases in his book From the Trenches

Mukund Padmanabhan The diverse mix of cases that includes Sabarimala, the Tata Group boardroom battle, animal abuse and the misuse of Article 365 are narrated with a rar

Karkaria sees action in the Western Front, is injured in the Battle of Somme, is moved to Egypt after his recovery and is in Azerbaijan when he is discharged from the army.

The First World War Adventures of Nariman Karkaria — A Memoir review: A globe-trotting war veteran

R. Krithika How a boy from Gujarat ended up in the trenches of World War I

The author discusses Operation Searchlight in detail, especially why and how the hour of the operation’s launch was advanced.

K.S. Nair’s December in Dacca review: War, conflict, and India’s role in Bangladesh’s liberation

KRA Narasiah Putting the spotlight on the land, air and sea battles of 1971 and the huge human costs

Beyond the dazzle of Dubai, Doha and Riyadh, there is pervasive poverty, inequality and injustice that are alienating people and making them susceptible to fundamentalism, drugs, terrorism and extremism.

Talmiz Ahmad’s West Asia at War review: Beyond Dubai’s riches

Dammu Ravi A veteran diplomat Talmiz Ahmad provides a rare non-Western narrative of complex undercurrents in West Asia, where inequality, politics over oil and r

Meticulously tracing Gandhi’s political action and philosophy, the book discusses the relevance of non-violence, satyagraha, mass-mobilisation, and Sarvodaya.

Review of Geopolitics in the era of Globalisation — Mapping an Alternative Global Future: The Gandhi approach

Dhananjay Tripathi

1930: On March 12, Gandhiji led the Salt Satyagraha from Sabarmati Ashram. On April 5, Gandhiji and his team arrived at Dandi, Gujarat where he manufactured salt, broke the Salt Law and started the nationwide Civil Disobedience Movement.

Gandhi in a salt memorial at Dandi

Singhvi thinks that lawyers don’t exist to assess or judge their clients. “I respectfully disagree with Gandhiji (who had strong views about who to represent),” he quips.

Noted lawyer Abhishek Singhvi recounts eight significant cases in his book From the Trenches

Mukund Padmanabhan

Karkaria sees action in the Western Front, is injured in the Battle of Somme, is moved to Egypt after his recovery and is in Azerbaijan when he is discharged from the army.

The First World War Adventures of Nariman Karkaria — A Memoir review: A globe-trotting war veteran

The author discusses Operation Searchlight in detail, especially why and how the hour of the operation’s launch was advanced.

K.S. Nair’s December in Dacca review: War, conflict, and India’s role in Bangladesh’s liberation

Beyond the dazzle of Dubai, Doha and Riyadh, there is pervasive poverty, inequality and injustice that are alienating people and making them susceptible to fundamentalism, drugs, terrorism and extremism.

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Talmiz Ahmad’s West Asia at War review: Beyond Dubai’s riches

“The Brahmin is the superhuman who is raised above humanity while the Shudra is the subhuman who due to his birth can never attain humanity.”

Jalalul Haq’s The Shudra — A Philosophical Narrative of Indian Superhumanism review: The persistence of a soul-crushing hierarchy

Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi

Gita Ramaswamy’s Land Guns Caste Woman is the story of an empowered woman deeply uncomfortable with 1980s feminist groups’ blinkered, Anglo-centric approaches.

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Gita Ramaswamy’s Land Guns Caste Woman review: The voice of a revolutionary

Meena Kandasamy

Understanding Vedanta philosophy

Dr. M. Varadarajan

Parassala Ponnammal.

Hemavathy — The book that traces Parassala Ponnammal’s musical journey

In Hitler’s Munich — Jews, the Revolution and the Rise of Nazism by Michael Brenner.

Review of Michael Brenner’s In Hitler’s Munich — Jews, the Revolution and the Rise of Nazism: Lessons from Nazi Germany

Review of Laura T. Murphy’s Azadnagar — The Story of a 21st Century Slave Revolt: The meaning of non-violence in the time of oppression

In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition by Aanchal Malhotra.

Review of Aanchal Malhotra’s In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition: Conversations about memories

Rakhshanda Jalil

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Gita Piramal’s Rahul Bajaj: An Extraordinary Life review: The Rahul Bajaj legacy

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