Slum Acts (After the Postcolonial) by Veena Das (2022): A Review by Chakraverti Mahajan
In her quest to understand the relationship between extreme violence and how it seeps into everyday life, Veena Das has…
In Praise of Criticality: An Opinion on the Production of Academic Research in India – Niloy Pratim Kashyap
Social science research in India, or at least much of it, has been characterized by a banal reiteration of an…
When Sparrows Became Hawks: The Making of the Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699-1799 by Purnima Dhavan (2011): A Review by Navpreet Kaur
Purnima Dhavan’s book When Sparrows Became Hawks: The Making of the Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699-1799 (published by Oxford University Press)…
Feminist Methodologies in International Relations edited by Brooke A. Ackerly, Maria Stern and Jacqui True (2006): A Review by Mansi Malhotra
International relations as a formal discipline is relatively new and the feminist perspective in it has an even more recent…
Ageing, Gerontology and Sociological Research: A Conversation with Tannistha Samanta
Tannistha Samanta is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, FLAME University, Pune, India. Her research focuses on…
Middle-Class Apartments – Whatsapp Groups, Religion, and Class Politics – Sahithi Sanaka
These observations come from living in a middle-class apartment as a member of the “ladies of the apartment” WhatsApp group.…
Celebrity Worship, Consumerism and Hegemony in Late-Stage Capitalism – Aishwarya Bejjaram
The media landscape has undergone a significant shift. A pre-wedding event, for instance, wouldn’t have generated the significant public attention…
Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras by Radhika Iyengar (2023): A Review by Rana Abhyendra Singh
Radhika Iyengar’s Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras (published by Fourth Estate India) in 2023describes the…
Gender, Space and Agency in India: Exploring Regional Genderscapes by Anindita Datta (2021): A Review by Jagadhatri Singh
Gender, Space, and Agency in India: Exploring Regional Genderscapes (published by Routledge in 2021) by Anindita Dutta is a collection…
Anger, Frustration and Hopelessness in Us and Franz Kafka’s K: Analyzing A Modern Predicament Through His Writings – Sohom Roy
From Walter Benjamin, with Illumination In the chapter titled ‘Some Reflections on Kafka’ within Walter Benjamin’s book Illuminations, the author…