Asoka Raina
The introductory chapter of this book starts with a comparison—no other intelligence organization has been subjected to such tumultous criticism as RAW in such a short span of its existence.
Reviewed by: R. Sreekumar
Sachchidananda Vatsyayyan ‘Ajneya’
Reading Islands in the Stream in translation almost thirty years after it was originally published in Hindi, it is difficult to visualize how it could have stirred up such controversy or earned so much disapproval.
Reviewed by: Purabi Banerjee
Jamila Verghese
Newly-married women being tortured to death for the sake of dowry has become such a common event these days that it has almost ceased to shock. And here, in the routine appearance of small in.
Reviewed by: Anamika
Bimal Prasad
Nobody may dispute that Jayaprakash Narayan, popularly called JP, has been an important factor in Indian polity for about half a century. Starting as a Marxist (while a student in the United States of America!), he became a votary of non-violence under Gandhi’s influence and took part in the various satyagraha movements launched by the Mahatma for the country’s freedom.
Reviewed by: K.N. Sud
John Bryan Starr
Mao Zedong was the most dominant and towering actor in the long drama of the Chinese Revolution. His ability to interface the universals of Marxism-Leninism with the particularities of China created a profound organic relationship between the man and the event which he himself acknowledged.
Reviewed by: MIRA SINHA
Brij Mohan Kaushik and O.N. Mehrotra
A central vision illumines this book: Pakistan intends to assemble a nuclear arsenal, but does not have present capability to do so. Eventually it will. India should, therefore, devise a policy to keep its competition with Pakistan below the nuclear threshold.
Reviewed by: P.R. Chari