By Mukund Padmanabhan
We are living in the post-pandemic era having fresh memories of evacuation, lockdown, information, and disinformation—overall a situation of panic.
Reviewed by: Pratip Chattopadhyay
By Aruna Narlikar, Amitabh Mattoo and Amrita Narlikar
The Ramayana and the Mahabharata are not just two great epics but also great treasures of our civilizational heritage that have inspired generations over many centuries.
Reviewed by: Saurabh Kumar
By Rohit Prasad
Prasad adopts an orthodox Eurocentric framing of the dawn of enlightenment and the coming of the age of rationality wherein he treats it as an endogenous phenomenon starting from the Renaissance down to the Industrial Revolution.
Reviewed by: Mujeeb Kanth
By Ziya Us Salam
The very first sentence of the ‘Preface’ in the book under review is crafted to grab readers by the scruff of their necks—‘To be a Muslim is to be an orphan’—and then keep them glued to each page.
Reviewed by: Asma Rasheed
By Deep Halder and Avishek Biswas
There are several books and articles that have been published on the state of Hindu minorities in Bangladesh, the role of Hindus in the 1971 liberation war and the Vested Property Act that disposed off their property. While the status of minorities in Pakistan is accepted as fait accompli in India
Reviewed by: Smruti S Pattanaik
By Pallavi Chakravarty
Boundaries and Belonging: Rehabilitating Refugees in India, 1947-1971 by Pallavi Chakravarty provides a critical analysis of the Indian state’s post-Partition programmes for rehabilitating refugees.
Reviewed by: Mohammad Imtiyaz