Madras Medley

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27 Mar 2019

India in the Age of Ideas: Select Writings: 2006-2018 by Sanjeev Sanyal - Review by Abhishek Desikan

India in the Age of Ideas is not a book/novel in the conventional sense, as it is a compendium of articles written and p...
15 Mar 2019

The Madurai Sultanate: A Concise History by Sandeep Balakrishna - Review by Abhishek Desikan

As the title suggests, this book gives a birds-eye view of the events which led to the establishment of the Madurai &ldq...
10 Mar 2019

Pakistan or the Partition of India by B.R.Ambedkar - Review by Abhishek Desikan

It’s not often that I’m completely bowled over by the precision in which someone puts forth an issue and pre...
15 Feb 2019

Heroic Hindu Resistance to Muslim Invaders, 636 AD To 1206 AD by Sita Ram Goel - Review by Abhishek Desikan

A question which has long troubled me about Indian history is how such a great civilization could not resist against the...
10 Feb 2019

The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma by Gurcharan Das - Review by Abhishek Desikan

Dharma is a word which has been used for millennia in the Indian subcontinent and later throughout the world, but it is ...