Tag: Book review
Slow Rebellion in the Age of Hyper-parenting
Carl Honore has been compared backhandedly to Karl Marx. According to the Financial Times Honore’s book In Praise of Slowness is to slow movement what Das Capital is to Communism. It’s not wrong to say that the book named as slow movement sporadic incidents of protests against quick, fast paced lives by bringing lives to […]
Najla Edward Said: On the Otherness Where We Belong
The reason why most people read Najila Said’s memoir: Looking for Palestine: Growing up Confused in an Arab-American Family might be that she is Edward Said’s daughter. There are other reasons why she must be read. Her prose is riveting; she recounts more about the process by which she grapples with her many identities than about her […]
Co-existence and Diaspora: A Jewish Critique of Zionism
All believers, whatever be their religion, must go through the experience of diaspora, as diaspora is helplessly an important stage in their life. Etymologically the word signifies scattering and dispersal and evokes the memories of homelessness. Where the Quran narrates the story of Banu Israel, addresses the newly emerging community of believers under Prophet Muhammad […]
The Strategic Partner
Review of Jason Brownlee’s Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the US, Egyptian alliance Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the US, Egyptian alliance Paperback: 296 pages Cambridge University Press (October 4, 2012) ISBN: 1107677866 In the heyday of counterrevolution against the deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, I had chat with a Communist party member in India […]
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