Dasai: Dancing with Alternative Narratives – Mrinalini Paul
Eight-year-old Budhuram Tudu had picked up the Dasai movements by simply watching his group practise their yearly Dasai dance in…
Legality, Precarity, and Lost Childhoods: A Story on Mica-Mining in Jharkhand – Madhubanti Talukdar
The children of Jharkhand, when not collecting ‘dhibra’[i] with the elders, go to school, or play, at the foothills of…
Sikhs in the Deccan and North-East India by Birinder Pal Singh (2018): A Review by Pallavi Sanil
Sikhs in the Deccan and North-East India by Birinder Pal Singh (published by Routledge in 2018) provides a comprehensive overview…
Riots and After in Mumbai: Revisiting a City in Conflict in 1992–93 by Meena Menon (2024): A Review by Manisha Sobhrajani
Meena Menon, in her book Riots and After in Mumbai: Revisiting a City in Conflict in 1992–93 (published by Yoda…
Whispers Of The Divine: The Linguistic Layers In Theyyam Performance – Akhila Krishnan
As a performative ritual, Theyyam is a cult confined to the socio-cultural matrix of northern Kerala. A kaleidoscope of colour…
Caste in Everyday Life: Experience and Affect: An Interview with Dhaneswar Bhoi
Dhaneswar Bhoi is an Honorary Fellow in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh and a Lecturer and Module Leader at…
A Match Made in Heaven: Exploring Love, Sex, and Relationships From a Disabled Lens – Kavya Mukhija and Aparajita Chatterjee
Despite the overall U.S. first-marriage rate for ages 18 to 49 being 48.9 per 1,000, for people with disabilities, it…
AfroAsian Musical Imaginaries of Circulations and Interconnections edited by Sumangala Damodaran (2024): A Review by Parvathi Krishnan
AfroAsian Musical Imaginaries: Of Circulations and Interconnections edited by Sumangala Damodaran (published by Tulika Books in 2024) is a scholarly…
The Illegitimate Child of the Motherland – Shahin Afrin
“Where are you from?” “My Abba’s village is from Jonia in Barpeta district.” “Oh! My village is Goroimari (near Jonia);…
Pedagogical Lessons on Sex-Gender-Sexuality and Feminism(s) in Why Women Kill (Season 1) – Vijitha Rajan
Why Women Kill is a dark comedy-drama anthology series from the United States, made by Marc Cherry. Each season features…