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…
Songs for the Motherland and Scars on Her Skin: A Sociological Take on Nationhood, Gender, and Public Neglect – Antara Misra
Our country has long been imagined as Bharat Mata or Mother India, symbolising a sacred land nurturing and protecting her…