The Shifting Ontologies of Death and COVID-19-Veenat Arora
Homo sapiens are the only species capable of reflecting upon its mortality. People have sought to make sense of death…
Urban Sociology Lessons for the COVID-19 Pandemic from Edward Norton’s Movie Motherless Brooklyn – Varun Patil
Amazon Prime India dropped Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn to its viewer’s right in the middle of a raging pandemic. It…
Battling Prejudice: A Story of Care and Hate in COVID-19 times- Jyoti Sinha
South Asian Workers’ Center (SAWC)[i] is proud to have volunteers who are from the South Asian community, as well as those…
Populist Politics in Pandemic Times: Symbols, Performances, and Rituals-Akanksha Indora
The last decade has seen the rise of populism globally. India has been no exception. While considerable scholarly attention has…
RISK SOCIETY AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC-Nabajyoti Saikia
The COVID-19 crisis, which began in Wuhan in the Hubei province of China has changed everyone’s lives across the globe.…
Monsoon and Paddy cultivation | Stuti Bandana Borkakati
Our fast city lives often detach us from the country-side. We get so caught up in the web of the…
Ethnography: Past, Present and Future: A Session with Gayathri Sreedharan (Part 1)
Gayathri Sreedharan is a social anthropologist and an ethnographer. She has an MA in Social anthropology from the University of…
How does a Civil Servant Apply Sociology? – Priyadarshini Bhattacharya
I was introduced to Sociology in school where I had taken humanities as my stream for further academic pursuit. My…