India – 2nd week of the dance of #democracy. Here's a choice quote from historian Ramachandra Guha's book India after Gandhi.

Marathons – in the long run.

#marathon #running #thisweekthosebooks #booktube

#thisweekthosebooks is in the newspapers though we’re a bit red-faced at being called a “newsletter empire” The New Indian Express

As India begins the world’s largest exercise in electoral democracy, #thisweekthosebooks has four reads: Ramachandra Guha on modern India’s history; essays that parse the #Modi effect at home and abroad; Aravind Adiga’s Booker-winning novel on the two Indias and how DO you organise such a jumbo election. Please read and share 

How safe is our world really?

Iran and #Israel face off. #Gaza’s civilians still bear #Israel’s wrath, six months after the horrors of the Oct 7 Hamas attack. It’s been one year since war broke out in #Sudan. And the #Ukraine-#Russia war is two years…and counting. #thisweekthosebooks on how safe is our world really:

"It’s true, the world map is blotchy with blood and tears"