About Pravin Subramanian

I review books on general history, economics and nature but have a special love for political history and Indian medieval history. Follow my YouTube channel for parallel author engagements.

NBN Episodes hosted by Pravin:

Ghazala Wahab, "The Hindi Heartland: A Study" (Aleph Book Company, 2025)

October 18, 2025

The Hindi Heartland

Ghazala Wahab

The Hindi heartland, comprising Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh, covers nearly 38 per cent o…

David Stasavage, "The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today" (Princeton UP, 2020)

October 18, 2025

The Decline and Rise of Democracy

David Stasavage

Historical accounts of democracy's rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and pre-Renaissance Europe. The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global Histor…

Clay Risen, "Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)

October 8, 2025

Red Scare

Clay Risen

From an award-winning historian and New York Times reporter comes the timely story about McCarthyism that both “lays out the many mechanisms of repres…