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Gandhi: Will he be the next victim of Britain’s ‘politically correct’ militants?
While a student campaign has failed to stop a statue of Mahatma Gandhi being raised in Manchester, the row over his bigoted attitudes continues to rage – including in India…. Read more >
Hot spots and danger zones in the age of climate change
An Environmental History of India – From earliest times to the Twenty-First Century by Michael H. Fisher (Cambridge University Press, 2018 /301 pp./£21.99) Trevor Grundy on an unsettling book… Read more >
Forty years after his brutal murder hope rises for the canonisation of Zimbabwe’s “leper saint.”
By TREVOR GRUNDY On the 5th September 1979, a group of Robert Mugabe’s guerrillas (ZANLA) kidnapped and then slaughtered the former head of a leper colony in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)…. Read more >
Blood River – A memory at the heart of the Afrikaners’ battle to surivive
Bridge Over Blood River: The Afrikaners’ Fight for Survival by Kajsa Norman (Hurst & Company, London 2016) TREVOR GRUNDY reviews Kajsa Norman’s book Bridge Over Blood River MODERN HISTORIANS… Read more >
Strongmen – Paving stones towards totalitarian dictatorships
STRONGMEN edited by Vijay Prashad published by OR Books 2018 • Paperback 112 pp. ISBN 978-1-682191-69-9 • E-book 978-1-682191-70-5) Reviewed by TREVOR GRUNDY Until recently, progressives believed that the retreat… Read more >
For Two Thousand Years – A literary masterpiece into English at long last
“For Two Thousand Years” by Mihail Sebastian (Penguin Books, London 2016, 231pp £9.99) Reviewed by Trevor Grundy The Romanian-Jewish author Mihail Sebastian (1907-45) isn’t a… Read more >
A SWAPO comrade’s experience of betrayal and torture
Book Review/Opinion SWAPO Captive – A comrade’s experience of betrayal and torture by Oiva Angula (Zebra Press, South Africa R 230/ 179pp.) Review by Trevor Grundy A regius… Read more >
Corporation with a licence to kill
Reviewed by Trevor Grundy SO MANY words of Indian origin have entered the English language and the Hindustan word for plunder, loot, is the best known. Indeed, Loot… Read more >