Saturday, April 20, 2024

Topic: Book review

Book review: My People Shall Live by Leila Khaled

‘My People Shall Live’ is the autobiography of the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) revolutionary Leila Khaled who attempted two plane hijacks- TWA Flight 840 and El-Al Flight 219 in 1969 and 1970 in order to free her people who were being held as prisoners in Israel, as well as bring the Palestinian cause to the forefront. The book, originally published in 1973, was edited by George Hajjar. 

Book Review: Please Look After Mother 

“There are moments one revisits after something happens, especially after something bad happens. Moments in which one thinks, "I shouldn't have done that.” These are...

Book review: A Constitution To Keep: Sedition And Free Speech In Modern India

On 11 August 2023,  the Government of India proposed a new draft of the criminal code of India.  Since coming into the public domain,...

Book review: RSS The Long and Short of It (2022)

Devanura Mahadeva, a leading political activist and a famed literary figure, in his latest book RSS The Long and Short of It has taken the RSS to the task.

Book review: “A Dismantled State” chronicles, deconstructs, and questions state propaganda surrounding Naya Kashmir

On 05 August 2019, the parliament stripped Jammu and Kashmir of its special status by reading down Article 370 and 35A, thus dividing the...

Rumours of Spring: Farah Bashir’s memoir is resistance in itself

Erstwhile Reuters photojournalist, Farah Bashir’s memoir is a timely and crucial intervention in South-Asian studies. As the title of the book suggests, it is...