On World Environment Day (June 5), as policymakers, citizens, and students revisit the pledges of sustainability, a persistent and disconcerting…

The modern state is often imagined through a fixed set of markers—territorial borders, citizenship regimes, models of democracy, and relations…

Namrata Gupta is a sociologist, and her research has focused on gender in STEM, particularly on women scientists in academia…

Having had the privilege of undertaking my undergraduate and postgraduate education in spaces that promised interdisciplinarity, I have experienced faculty…

For many of us, the morning scroll is incomplete without that one picture of snow-capped mountains, a glowing sun, and…

‘Humayunpur feels like home.’   ‘I feel safe when I am there.’  ‘The food there reminds me of home.’ –    …

The media is the new and leading ideological state apparatus of contemporary societies. Note that media in this piece, by…

Accents are a pivotal part of our shared lived experience. The way we speak shapes a lot of things in…

The ‘nature vs. nurture’ debate, the question of whether human behaviour is determined by inherent biological predispositions (nature) or shaped…

The recent surge in monarchist sentiment in Nepal reveals a deeply troubling picture of the masses’ disillusionment with democracy. Amish…