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Just Being by Romila Thapar

JUST FINISHED READING  what was arguably my best read of 2026, so far, Romila Thapar`s memoir JUST BEING, Seagull Books. This tome of a little more than 700 pages details the pre-eminent historian`s life of formidable achievements in the nine decades of her life, all of it driven by a curious uber-intelligent mind, the privilege…

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Book review: Which Of Us Are Aryans, essays by Romila Thapar, Michael Witzel, Jaya Menon, Kai Frieze, Razib Khan

My Wednesday review (because life must follow some kind of routine even in these terrible times):   WHICH OF US ARE ARYANS? Rethinking the Concept of our Origins. Romila Thapar, Michael Witzel, Jaya Menon, Kai Frieze, Razib Khan. Aleph Books.   This book ventures into that thorny thicket of (our) Aryan identity which, as one…

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