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Book Review: “India: A History” by John Keay

By lukebrown • Jan 10th, 2003 • Category: Books

(HarperCollins – 576 pages)
Reviewer – Luke Brown

India: a history, by John Keay, attempts to chart the course of the history of India from around [...]



Book Review: “Pakistan: A Modern History” by Ian Talbot

By lukebrown • Jan 3rd, 2003 • Category: Books

(Hurst & Company, London – 432 pages)
Reviewer – Luke Brown
Admittedly its birth as a nation state is more recent than most, but it is still surprising [...]



Press Freedom in China

By lukebrown • Dec 14th, 2002 • Category: The Places

Reading the English version of China’s People’s Daily on the Internet, one gets the heartening impression that the Chinese government is tackling the growing [...]



Book Review: “Caucasus” by Nicholas Griffin

By lukebrown • Dec 10th, 2002 • Category: Books

(Review – 240 pages)
Reviewer – Luke Brown
“Mountain Men and Holy Wars”
Ominously, Zbigniew Brzezinski, [...]



North Korea: Roll over Kim Il Sung

By lukebrown • Oct 6th, 2002 • Category: The Places

One wonders how advocates for centrally planned economies still gain a voice. The concept that a relative few on a committee of sorts should be [...]



Peace in Sri Lanka?

By lukebrown • Sep 24th, 2002 • Category: The Places

Founded in the 1970s and commencing their armed struggle for an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka in 1983, against [...]



Press Freedom in Africa

By lukebrown • Sep 18th, 2002 • Category: The Politics

It is fairly well known that the last couple of years in Zimbabwe have seen an increasingly harsh crackdown on journalists and newspapers, local and [...]