Through shocking and revelatory confessions of an Indian Army officer on extrajudicial killings and state-sanctioned murders by the armed forces, journalist Kishalay Bhattacharjee’s latest book depicts how Indian state is built on violence and questions how a democracy can sustain acts which violate human rights for decades together. In his book, “Blood on my hands”…
Review: From The Holy Mountain
BY Naveed Qazi In 587 A.D, two monks from Greece set on a journey that took them across the Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. John Moshos, and his pupil Sophronius stayed in caves, monasteries and remote hermitages, collecting ancient wisdom of their forefathers before the eruption…
Review: Capital in the Twenty-First Century
By Naveed Qazi Economist Thomas Piketty’s new book, “Capital In The Twenty-First Century”, has focused on the alternative between Capitalism and Communism. Branko Milanovic, a former economist at the World Bank, called it “one of the watershed books in economic thinking.” Paul Krugman, winner of the Nobel in economic science and a columnist for The New…
Book Review: Zealot – The Life And Times of Jesus of Nazareth
After composing “No God But God”, which got shortlisted as one of the most important books of the last decade, Iranian American writer, Reza Aslan is back with his excellent scholarly research on Judeo- Christian history, says Naveed Qazi The book is a product of two decades of academic research into the origins of Christianity. The…