Channar Revolt and the Contemporary Indian Context: Caste, Community and the Muslim Woman – Tahseen Fatima
The Channar Revolt that took place in the 19th century in the erstwhile princely state of Travancore reverberates even today.…
“You are asking us to discount all perspectives, but to think in only ‘one’ Perspective”: ‘Common Sense’ in a Private University Sociology Class – Anindita Chakrabarty
A common phrase with which many of us began our Sociology classes at the undergraduate level is ‘Sociology is not…
Kinship, Relatedness and Multi-Species Ethnography in India: An Interview with Radhika Govindrajan
Radhika Govindrajan teaches in the Department of Anthropology, University of Washington. She is a cultural anthropologist who works across the…
Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia by Neeti Nair (2023): A Review by Iymon Majid
Neeti Nair’s new book Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia (Published by Harvard University Press in 2023) advances…
Social Spaces and the Public Sphere: A Spatial History of Modernity in Kerala by S. Harikrishnan (2023): A Review by Rituparna Patgiri
S. Harikrishnan’s Social Spaces and the Public Sphere: A Spatial History of Modernity in Kerala, published by Routledge in 2023…
Transformative Role of Queer Affirmative Therapy: Dismantling Dogmas and Strengthening Solidarity – Aswathy B. Surendran
In 2018, the decriminalization of homosexuality in India brought new hope but the prejudices, homophobia, and violence lingering around everyday…
Whose Identity? The Discourse of Purity in Assam – Niloy Pratim Kashyap and Rishiraj Sen
Introduction: The northeast Indian state of Assam is rippled with a sense of contested identity fueled by a majoritarian ethnocentric…
Idi In Iddiyappam: Food as A Weapon In Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey – Ann Rose Davis
Idiyappam, also known as Nool Puttu or Nool Appam, is a famous breakfast dish of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, which…
A Book Discussion on Periyar: A Study in Political Atheism
Karthick Ram Manoharan is a faculty at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He was a Marie Curie…
Mumbai/Bombay: Majoritarian Neoliberalism, Informality, Resistance and Wellbeing edited by Sujata Patel, D Parthasarathy and George Jose (2022): A Review by Suraj Beri
The unpredictability of its economic transformations, the growth of its real estate markets, the competing jurisdictions of its governing systems,…