Book Review

Book Review- Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past by Vikram Sampath

May 28, 2022

Sampath brings the story of arguably the most contested figure of the freedom movement. There are very few who view Savarkar as a person. For both his haters and admirers he is an idea and a force. The “Man who could have prevented partition” or the “Man who signed the mercy petition”. There is rarely […]

BOOK REVIEW- THE HUNDRED-YEAR MARATHON: CHINA’S SECRET STRATEGY TO REPLACE AMERICA AS THE GLOBAL SUPERPOWER

May 24, 2022

AUTHOR: MICHAEL PILLSBURY PUBLISHER: HENRY HOLT AND CO.,2015 About the Author Michael Paul Pillsbury is a leading authority in China. He has worked under various US presidential administrations. He is a famous sinologist and former public official in the United States. He has served various posts in the U.S. Department of Defence and the U.S. […]

BOOK REVIEW: THE TRAGEDY OF GREAT POWER POLITICS.

May 23, 2022

AUTHOR: JOHN MEARSHEIMER PUBLISHER: W.W. NORTON & COMPANY 2001 About the Author John Mearsheimer is an American Political scientist and international relations scholar who belongs to the realist school of thought, best known for his theory of offensive realism. After graduating from United States Military Academy (WestPoint) in 1970, Mearsheimer served as an officer in […]

Book review of AAVRAN-the veil

March 30, 2020

I have been reading AAVARAN- the veil by S.L Bhyrappa since the last few days and without any ambiguity I will recommend it to everyone. The more I read it the more deeper I delved down. It starts with the story of a progressive, rebellious, feminist girl Laxmi who marries a boy Amir and converts […]

KESARI: AIN’T A REGULAR PATRIOTIC FILM

March 31, 2019

A regiment with little internal issues but ready to sacrifice anything for the motherland. A challenging war at the threshold. A Sikh commander – the master of the most rightful ethics and commitment towards Dharma. Sounds like a remake of ‘Border’? Well, Akshay Kumar starred ‘Kesari’ may resemble to the 1997 hit, but the approach […]

THE YELLOW ‘H’: AN EMBLEMATIC OF ETHNIC CLEANSING IN BANGLADESH

March 23, 2019

A group of five men including a government official, on 13th June 2009 at 12.45 am broke into a home. They engaged in some vandalization and finally abducted 20-year old Koli Goswami from the house while flaunting their arms throughout the street to terrorize civilians. The Goswami family hurriedly approached the local police station but […]

OPERATION JOHAR- A LOVE STORY

February 26, 2019

From the past six months or so I have been a regular reader of the blog ‘DYNASTYCROOKS’. It has terrific insight and analysis of politics and other issues of national interest and many a time a refreshingly different take on affairs. Who wrote it used to be a mystery at the time I started reading […]

‘THE EMERGENCY: A PERSONAL HISTORY’

November 25, 2018

After writing a sarcastic take on those whose refrain these days is ‘India is under the thumb of fascist forces’, I wished to know more about the time India had its only brush with fascism, authoritarianism and dictatorship, the dark days of Indian democracy- Emergency. Once I was done with the Pre-Professional exams, I picked […]

हेरिसन मेडिसिन पुस्तक हिंदी में, शक्य है?

October 31, 2018

(मेरा मूल लेख गुजराती में था, यह इसका हिंदी अनुवाद है. चिक्तिसा शास्त्र से तालुक न रखने वाले वाचकों की जानकारी हेतु- ‘हेरिसन मेडिसिन’ चिकत्सा-शाश्त्र की एक विश्व-विख्यात पाठ्यपुस्तक है, जिसको ‘चिकत्सा-शास्त्र की बाइबल’ की उपाधि भी प्राप्त है.) कल्पना कीजिए, ‘चिकित्सकों की बाइबल’, ‘हेरिसन मेडिसिन’, बजाय बाइबल के, महाभारत हो गई है, अर्थात, […]

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

October 27, 2018

Die Verwandlung popularly known as The Metamorphosis is a classic Kafka Originals. Franz Kafka, the German-language novelist, and short story writer is considered as one of the most influential wordsmith of the early twentieth century. The Metamorphosis by this weird literary Genius is an account of the traveling salesman (Gregor Samsa) who wakes up one […]

Nehru and Bose: Parallel Lives

January 15, 2018

Nehru and Bose: Parallel lives is an unique book for there has rarely been such an extensive comparative analysis between the two personalities who dominated the national scene and politics of congress for almost two decades starting from the 1920s till 1940s. What strikes you the most while reading the book is the author’s lack […]

‘Animal Farm’

August 24, 2017

One of the first outcomes while indulging with any of the Orwellian works is the stark realisation of its remarkable contemporariness. Animal Farm has a unique distinction for itself in this regard, written almost seven decades ago, it is still refreshingly contemporary. Socialist regimes around the world faintly followed the trajectory he so vividly eulogized […]