Sociology, Unplugged: A Concise Guide to Contemporary Sociology with Phil Zuckerman
Phil Zuckerman is Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College. He is the author of several books, including What It Means…
Munshi Premchand at 146: Finding a Sociologist in a Literary Icon – Vinay Suhalka
I read my first Premchand short story in grade 4, aged 10, as part of my school Hindi syllabus. It…
Governing the Crisis: Narratives of COVID-19 in India edited by Rahul Ranjan (2025): A Review by Akanksha Sanil
Governing the Crisis: Narratives of COVID-19 in India (published by Routledge in 2025), edited by Rahul Ranjan, is a collection…
The Weight of Listening: Social Life After Witnessing Another Person’s Trauma – Suadath V
We tend to think of sexual violence through the lenses of survivors or of institutions. On one side, the focus…
Understanding Propaganda: A Study of Media in Contemporary India by Arani Basu (2025): A Review by Rusha Chatterjee
I am sitting on the metro. Instagram shows me a reel with the audio track from Dhurandhar. The middle-aged man…
Why the Best Recent Film About Hyderabad is from Malayalam Cinema – Sukruta Alluri
As Peddi becomes the highest-grossing film in Tollywood this year, while simultaneously courting controversy over its treatment of women actors,…
Scattered Across the Field: Learning to Read Silence Along the Brahmaputra – Subhechha Bharatiya
The question sounded simple. “Why did you leave?” I had asked it many times before. During earlier fieldwork in Delhi,…
Laughing at Honour: Women’s Agency Beyond Respectability Politics in Maa Behen – Bonti Neog
Paradox of the Perfect Woman Laughter does not rectify systemic inequalities; rather, it signifies a rejection of fear-based control of…
A Book Discussion On the War on Tenure with Deepa Das Acevedo
Deepa Das Acevedo is a legal anthropologist and Associate Professor of Law at Emory University. Her book, The War on…
Die, My Love: An Ode to the Unabashed Instability of the Feminine Abject – Tannistha Samanta
In director Lynn Ramsay’s latest film, Die, My Love (2025), female subjects are unapologetically unhinged- caught in a delirium of…