The Unmaking of a Republic – Madhubanti Talukdar
The Bhopal of the Begums and Nawabs stands on the brink of destruction. A city’s Muslim past, threatened by the…
Savarna Solidarities In The Ambedkarite Struggle – Jatin Mathur
Recently Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’ Association (BAPSA), a student organization in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) based upon Ambedkar’s ideas and…
Beef, Brahmins, and the Sacred: Navigating Socio-Political Dynamics of The Indian Holy Cow – Sahil Singh
The reverence for the holy cow in India is deeply entrenched in religious, social, and political realms, shaping the country’s…
A Book Discussion on Who Cares? Care Extraction and the Struggles of Indian Health Workers
A Book Discussion on Who Cares? Care Extraction and the Struggles of Indian Health Workers Edited by Maya John and…
Sociologists’ Futurity Formation Through Hauntology – Sheng-Hsiang Lance Peng
At its core, Sociology thrives when it casts its gaze outward, going into the knots of human society: its myriad…
Why Would I be Married Here? Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India by Reena Kukreja (2022): A Review by Khushbu Sharma
Marriage as an institution has not received adequate attention from the ‘mainstream’ and ‘traditional’ political science. Owing to its relegation…
Sociology of South Asia: Postcolonial Legacies, Global Imaginaries edited by Gowri Vijayakumar and Smitha Radhakrishnan (2022): A Review by Mamoon Bhuyan
In the edited volume Sociology of South Asia Postcolonial Legacies, Global Imaginaries (published by Springer in 2022), Gowri Vijayakumar and Smitha Radhakrishnan introduce…
Holi Traditions And Social Order: A Study Of The Village Of Jamua – Mihir Keshari
Holi is not just a festival of colours, but rather it’s made up of diverse traditions, some of these traditions…
Notes on Everyday Life, Ethnography, and the Promise of Imagination – Proshant Chakraborty
“Imagine yourself….” Imagine yourself as an ethnographer. You are sitting at the threshold of a house that has been your…
Lost and Found: A Closer Look at Laapataa Ladies – Anjali Chauhan
Kiran Rao’s masterful direction presents a narrative that echoes a clever Indian reimagining of Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors,” enriching the…