Apr 15, 2023BOOKSThe Colored Fountain: Racism in the United States, Casteism in India(October 11, 2023 update: A new Indian edition of the book has just been published by Aleph under the title Three Countries, Three Lives:...
Sep 22, 2022BOOKS The Academic Uses of ImprisonmentAn inescapable part of editing academic material is Internet research, which can unexpectedly entertain and inform (see The Serendipitous...
May 24, 2022BOOKSTables That Eat Grass and Crows That Fly Upside DownIn the book To Kill a Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism by Debashish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane, I came across this sentence...
Apr 20, 2022BOOKSDiseases Named after PatientsThis passionately written book (The Invention of Surgery by David Schneider) describes the giant strides medicine has made since its...