The best critical review I know of Shiva's work is Meera Nanda, "Is Modern Science a Western, Patriarchal Myth: A Critique of the Populist Orthodoxy", South Asia Bulletin, vol. XI, nos. 1 and 2, 1991:32-61. It has been years since I read this review or Shiva's *Staying Alive* and *The Violence of The Green Revolution*. I think that Nanda raises several important criticisms of Shiva's attempt to demonstrate an inherent relationship between science and patriarchy and between commodification and patriarchy. Perhaps where Nanda's criticism is weakest is her underestimation, based on secondary sources, of the environmental impact of the Green Revolution. Here Shiva has done serious research, especially in the follow-up book to the one Nanda is critically reviewing. I do not know if Nanda wrote a review of *The Violence of the Green Revolution.* And, yes, Shiva's understanding of Indian history is romantic--this distortion is subjected to severe criticism by Nanda. Rakesh Bhandari
