The Commodification of Culture: Media, Consumption, and Everyday Practice – Jobeda Akter Rini
In a modern society defined by the screen, digital content and global consumption where culture becomes a commodity, a product…
The Altimetry of Displacement: Reading Queer Biracial Belonging in Postcolonial Literature – Sanandita Chakraborty
Everyone has a journey with their language languages are the way we see this world. They are deeply connected to…
Lana Del Rey-ification of Women: The Political Economy of Melancholic Femininity – Sanandita Chakraborty
You’ve seen her. She’s crying in candlelight, lips smudged, captioned ‘Born to Die’ with 12k likes. The body that moves…
Street Food, Taste and Urban Spaces: Musings with Krishnendu Ray
Krishnendu Ray is a Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University (NYU). He is…
Migration and Me: A Personal Reflection on Internal Mobility and Social Transformation – Sadaf N
Migration is often discussed in statistics, policies, and large-scale trends. But for me, it is deeply personal. It lives in…
Why Sitaare Zameen Par is an Essential Critique of the ‘Normal’ – Soumodip Sinha
It is quite usual to depict the so-called normal on screen. But once in a decade, or two, we come…
Gendered Spaces and the Public Sphere: A Critical Reflection on Delhi Metro’s Women-Only Compartment Notice – Prachi Shanker
Public notices serve a purpose beyond merely delivering information; they play an active role in influencing how people perceive, engage…
Sex and the City: Decoding the Series Sociologically – Upali Bhattacharya
Rewatching Sex and the City as a show today can be both confusing and liberating. Confusing, in the sense, that…
From Trial to Text: Judgement at Nuremberg and the Reconstruction of the Past – Sulagna Moitra
“Let it now be noted that here in our decision, this is what we stand for: justice, truth and the…
Cyborg: Human and Machine Communication Paradigm by Kuldeep Singh Kaswan, Jagjit Singh Dhatterwal, Anupam Baliyan and Shalli Rani (2023): A Review by Arun Kumar Gond and Saloni Yadav
Imagine a world where humans and machines work together as one. Cyborg: Human and Machine Communication Paradigm Kuldeep Singh Kaswan, Jagjit…