Community, Category, and the State: Hijras in Contemporary Queer Discourse
Community, Category, and the State: Hijras in Contemporary Queer Discourse A Discussion with Pushpesh Kumar and Sayantan Datta Pushpesh Kumar…
The City that Never Knows Your Name: Loneliness in Urban Bangladesh – Mst. Fahima Akter Rima
There is a particular type of quiet that determines you in a crowd. Not the quiet of an empty room,…
Khatna and the Regulation of Women’s Bodies – Anjali Sidhwani
Violence matters. It wrecks lives. It causes injury and misery. Violence is both a cause and a consequence of inequality.…
Talking About Objects: Material Elicitation as a Method – Anwesha Panigrahi
Objects surely don’t talk. Or do they? The person in that living room gives an account of themselves by responding…
A Sociology of Fermented Foods: Who Forgot, Who Remembered, And Who Profits? – Ananya Roy Pratihar
Scroll through any social media platform, particularly during the summer months, and one encounters a proliferation of short-form videos like…
The Making and Unmaking of Domestic Workers in India: A conundrum of Data, Law and Policy – Aditi Yajnik
Introduction: Domestic Workers at the Margins of Labour Law Every year, Jantar Mantar becomes the centre of domestic worker mobilisations…
On Women, Artificial Intelligence and Its Real Consequences – Shimaila Mushtaq
AI has raised concerns and anxieties regarding loss of jobs, digital scams, data privacy, geopolitics, and even the potential to…
Doing Sociology in Public: Pedagogy, Practice, and Disciplinary Futures
Maitrayee Chaudhuri is a retired Professor of Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research interests have been…
Understanding ‘Shame’ in the Judicial Process – Ankita Chatterjee
Introduction Judicial decisions are supposed to uphold objective fidelity to facts and legal doctrines. Emotions are supposed to be kept…
Transforming Rights: How Law Shapes Transgender Lives, Identity and Community in India edited by Jayna Kothari (2026): A Review by Ruchi Nanwani
The foundation of the recently published Transforming Rights: How Law Shapes Transgender Lives, Identity and Community in India, edited by…