Navigating the City through Food, Identity and Belongingness: Humayunpur in Delhi – Madhusmita Devi and Prerona Barman
‘Humayunpur feels like home.’ ‘I feel safe when I am there.’ ‘The food there reminds me of home.’ – …
Social Media and the Broadcasting Bill: Regulation or Intervention? – Alisha Afrin
The media is the new and leading ideological state apparatus of contemporary societies. Note that media in this piece, by…
Politics of Pronunciation: Accents, Identity and Exclusion in Neoliberal India – Anshuman Jha, Aparup Dey, Kirti Sharma, Manya Diptam, Meenu Teotia, Pavithra P. Baiju, Rashmirekha Sahoo and Swastika Patnaik
Accents are a pivotal part of our shared lived experience. The way we speak shapes a lot of things in…
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience And What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley (2011): A Review by Harshvardhan Tripathy
The ‘nature vs. nurture’ debate, the question of whether human behaviour is determined by inherent biological predispositions (nature) or shaped…
The Dialectics of Nostalgia and Disillusionment Through the Lens of Heller’s A Theory of History – Prarthana Dixit
The recent surge in monarchist sentiment in Nepal reveals a deeply troubling picture of the masses’ disillusionment with democracy. Amish…
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…