Two book reviews of ’Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War by Sarmila Bose’
Two book reviews of ’Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War by Sarmila Bose’
The notion of privacy has been under attack in recent times. Information technology, with its seemingly limitless capacity to hold, and give access to, all kinds of data and details about peoples, places, happenings and scores of other facts and fiction, has overwhelmed concerns about privacy. Facebook and its kin, though of remarkably recent origin, have already spun a web of forgetfulness around the significance of privacy.
Swamy prefers to shine in solitary splendour as the president of a virtually one-man Janata Party, but has been quick to make common cause with the parivar on issues of crucial importance to it such as Narendra Modi’s nationalist virtues and the reprehensible crimes of religious minorities. Humanity as a whole may not have heard of Andreas Behring Breivik a month ago but was forced to take note of his ’manifesto’ after the Norway massacre of July 23. Subramanian Swamy presents a parallel. The outside world may not have heard much of the Indian politician, but his own manifesto, released through a newspaper article, deserves wider notice.
Simon Johnson, co-author of "13 Bankers" describes the rise of concentrated financial power and the threat it poses to economic well-being. He explains that over the past three decades, a handful of banks became spectacularly large and profitable and used their power and prestige to reshape the political landscape. He argues that the largest banks have become more powerful and more emphatically "too big to fail," with no incentive to change their behavior in the future. Is this setting the stage for another financial crisis, another government bailout, and another increase in our national debt?
Can the governments which consistently let their lawyers down, be trusted to uphold the rights of their people? How much longer will the State fight against its own citizens, inside and outside court, asks Professor Nandini Sundar, the lead petitioner in the Salwa Judum case.
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