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Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
Read more: Embroideries by Marjane SatrapiSet in the backdrop of post-revolution Iran, Embroideries is a tale of a bunch of masochistic women who have internalized the oppressive societal norms in which they live and at the same time are conscious about its biased nature.
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Book Review: The Globalization Backlash by Colin Crouch
Read more: Book Review: The Globalization Backlash by Colin CrouchThis article is a critique of one of the most celebrated books on the concept of globalisation – The Globalization Backlash by English political scientist, Colin Crouch. It talks about the concept of globalisation and how it has shaped and reshaped the world. It also discusses the many contentions people hold regarding the aspects of…
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Book Review: The Limits to Growth
Read more: Book Review: The Limits to GrowthIs growth an unstoppable beast or does it have limits? This is a question which a lot of academicians have been debating for a while. With numerous theories around the idea of growth, the labyrinth of development and growth has been complicated even more. It was in the 1970s when people started to play with…
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Book Review: The Lover by Marguerite Duras
Read more: Book Review: The Lover by Marguerite DurasThis review considers the subversion of the racial hierarchy in 1920s colonial Saigon in Marguerite Duras’ The Lover as well as the novel’s portrayal of gender dynamics in colonial Indo-China.
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Book Review- Populism: A Very Short Introduction, Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
Read more: Book Review- Populism: A Very Short Introduction, Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira KaltwasserIn this article, Vanshika Shah reviews the book Populism: A Very Short Introduction written by Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser.
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BOOK REVIEW: ‘HINDU RULERS, MUSLIM SUBJECTS’ BY DR. MRIDU RAI
Read more: BOOK REVIEW: ‘HINDU RULERS, MUSLIM SUBJECTS’ BY DR. MRIDU RAIMuch of the history of Jammu and Kashmir has been written from the lens of ongoing territorial conflict between the nations of India and Pakistan. Within such a narrative a complex story of the Princely past of the state gets lost and we tend to forget the territorial limits of Indian nationalism as it existed.…
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Economics for Storytelling
Read more: Economics for StorytellingThis book is just a lead to my idea of economics being made accessible. Author Tim Harford says in the book, “Economics is about people – something that economists have done a very bad job at explaining.”
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Future Tenses; Present Pretences
Read more: Future Tenses; Present PretencesFuture Tenses by Nitisha Kaul My raison d’etre for choosing this book was to delve deep into the dispute and to get a perspective of the life of people currently living in Indian Occupied Kashmir.
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V.S Naipaul – India a Wounded Civilisation : A Retreat to Archaism
Read more: V.S Naipaul – India a Wounded Civilisation : A Retreat to ArchaismIn this article, I wish to delve deeper into this “wound” that comes across as a scar even today in modern India.
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On Storytelling with Raghu Karnad
Read more: On Storytelling with Raghu KarnadRaghu Karnad recounted what it means to tell stories that are both an attempt to rewrite history and to understand the world that he comes from. ‘Farthest Field’, then becomes an exercise in literary studies that retains its uniqueness. It makes the most of the ambiguity and allows one to play with the categorisations especially the…
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Votes and Violence by Steven I. Wilkinson
Read more: Votes and Violence by Steven I. WilkinsonSteven I. Wilkinson in his book ‘Votes and Violence: Electoral competition and ethnic riots in India’ explores the problem of variability in ethnic violence in different states of India and their causes. He tries to put an end to many prevailing myths and theories that scholars, students and the common people have held regarding…
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RASKOLNIKOV IN CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: MOTIVES BEHIND HIS ACTIONS
Read more: RASKOLNIKOV IN CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: MOTIVES BEHIND HIS ACTIONSBy Arjun Badola The novel, Crime and punishment, is written by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky who shows us the plight of an ordinary person and the effect on his psyche after he commits a murder. The protagonist in the novel, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, is a former student and is currently living in very extreme…