Global Sociology and Building Bridges: A Conversation with Geoffrey Pleyers
Geoffrey Pleyers is an F.R.S-FNRS researcher and professor of Sociology at the University of Louvain, Belgium. He is also the…
Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India by Srila Roy (2022): A Review by Amya Agarwal
The slogans ‘Naari Sashaktikaran’ (women’s empowerment), ‘Beti Bachaao, Beti Padaao’ (save a girlchild, teach a girlchild) and ‘Nari Shakti’(women power)…
Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak by Madhumita Dutta (2022): A Review by Jagadhatri Singh
Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak by Madhumita Dutta (published by Zubaan in 2022) presents an unfiltered dialogue, among a…
Cinema And the Society: Disturbing Realities of Animal and Advocating For Media Accountability by Sonal Srivastava and Jeetendra Kumar Patel
Cinema is an effective tool for addressing societal issues and shaping collective perceptions, as demonstrated by the review of Slumdog…
Bonalu, Barricades and Majoritarianism: Experiences of Religious Polarisation in Telangana – Somnath Pati
The year was 2016. I had just travelled to the city of Hyderabad, to appear in the EFLU Entrance Examination.…
Mahasweta Devi’s ‘Breast Giver’: A Synopsis – Riddhi Chakraborty
Introduction The story ‘Breast Giver’ was written by Mahasweta Devi in 1987. In this story, the author talks about Jashoda,…
Social Policy for Women in Pakistan by Sara Rizvi Jafree (2023): A Review by Adhvaidha Kalidasan
Sara Rizvi Jafree’s seminal work Social Policy for Women in Pakistan (published by Springer in 2023) is a remarkable and…
Mockery as Power: Aesthetics of Caste Discrimination in India – Ankur Kumar
The act of mocking someone or something is to laugh at someone in an unkind way. It is an act…
A Book Discussion on Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa
A Book Discussion on Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa Edited by Nicky…
The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21st Century by Surinder Singh Jodhka (2023): A Review by Anjali Chauhan
I started reading this book with my own (mis)understanding of the “rural” and with the whole bag of myths and…