The author, Sreeram Chaulia, begins the book with an introduction that details the 2023 G20 conference in India and the unanimous adoption of the New Delhi proclamation. Someone reading a few pages from the book’s initial section would find that Narendra Modi’s accomplishments are somewhat overemphasised. In light of the recent conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the author claims that the United States and its European allies intended the G20 joint communique as a tool for exerting coordin...
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Book Review: Siddharth N. Vijayaraghavan’s Empire of the Cholas
Siddharth N. Vijayaraghavan is an author born in India and educated in Singapore and India. He is currently completing his Master’s (Integrated) degree in English Studies at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras.
Empire of the Cholas book is a work of historical fiction. The author narrates his personal feeling while writing this book: that the temple or the characters that have been depicted in the book may be fictional to people, but to him, these are the people h...
Book Review: ‘Echoes of Faith’ by Novel and Ashok Lavasa
Novel Lavasa is an organic farmer and an environmentalist. Ashok Lavasa recently completed his tenure as Vice President of the Asian Development Bank. Before joining the bank, he served as Election Commissioner of India after his retirement from the government as Union Finance Secretary.
In this book, the authors share their three-decade-long journey through the places in India as well as other parts of the world that are associated with faith. They anthologized all their memories in this...
Review of Sadaf Wani’s City as Memory: A Short Biography of Srinagar
Sadaf Wani is a Kashmiri writer and a senior communications professional authored her latest book, City as Memory: A Short Biography of Srinagar. In this book, she draws on her childhood experiences of the mid-90s, captivated by unrestrained insurgencies, upheavals, and augmenting militarization, and the early 2000s, soaked with a series of violent acts in response to civil protests. Wani shares the reminiscences of her personal acquaintances with the locality and the serious scholarship of ...
Book review: “Jug of Love” by Ayatollah Rohullah Mousavi Khomeini
Persian to English translation of the poems composed by Imam Khomeini, from 1986-1989, by Dr Muhammad Legenhausen is an illuminating discovery to the English-speaking world. The expression of emotions, mysticism and overflowing imagination in the poems demystifies all the preconceived notions about an iconic figure of the twentieth century, who is mistaken as a philistine person.
By translating eight of the many poems from Persian to English (ghazals) composed by Imam Khomeini (1902-1989...