Between ‘Indigenous’ And the ‘Others’: The Tangled Identity Question of Muslims In Assam – Shofiul Alom Pathan
On 6 July, 20222 the Assam government decided to declare five Muslim subgroups – Goria, Moria, Syed, Deshi and Julha…
Embodying Motherhood: Perspectives from Contemporary India by Anu Aneja and Shubhangi Vaidya (2016): A Review by Priyasha Choudhary
Embodying Motherhood: Perspectives from Contemporary India by Anu Aneja and Shubhangi Vaidya (published by Sage in 2016) is another ground-breaking…
#Crime: Social Media, Crime, and the Criminal Legal System by Rebecca M. Hayes and Kate Luther (2018): A Review by Twinkle Siwach
Rebecca M. Hayes and Kate Luther in #Crime: Social Media, Crime, and the Criminal Legal System (published by Palgrave Macmillan…
Vernacular Politics in Northeast India: Democracy, Ethnicity and Indigeneity edited by Jelle J.P. Wouters (2022): A Review by Abir Lal Mazumder
Vernacular Politics in Northeast India: Democracy, Ethnicity and Indigeneity edited by Jelle J.P. Wouters (published by Oxford University Press in…
Doing Sociology in a Technological Institute: An Interview with Ravinder Kaur
Ravinder Kaur is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian…
Periyar: A Study in Political Atheism by Karthick Ram Manoharan (2022): A Review by Gayatri Balu
Karthick Ram Manoharan’s book Periyar: A Study in Political Atheism (published by Orient BlackSwan) in 2022 is a remarkable attempt…
The Penalty of Motherhood in Higher Education Institutes in India – Krithika Narayanswamy
My daughter turns two soon. It is a joyous occasion. I longed to become a mother and have found it…
Decoding PK: A Style of Doing Ethnographic Fieldwork – Kinkar Mandal
PK was a Rajkumar Hirani, directed (2014) movie. The plot follows an innocent alien (Aamir Khan) who lands on Earth…
Pathaan: Fractured Hope for Feminist Fans? – Swati Dyahadroy and Sneha Gole
Link to the editorial note and the panel discussion can be found here. This piece will try to locate anxieties around…
Bohot Kuch Hota Hai: Towards a Reparative Reading of Pathaan – Sayantan Datta and Bishal Kumar Dey
Link to the editorial note and the panel discussion can be found here. Their fantasies are—can I get married and be…