On Jouissance and the Feminine: Revisiting Lacan’s Encore – Abhijay Rambabu
Introduction Jacques Marie Emile Lacan (1901–1981) was a highly influential French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, best known for his original interpretations…
From Empire’s Labourers To Nation’s Outsiders – Jahidul Hassan
The question of belonging is not a very old concept; it was shaped with the British annexation of Assam with…
Forests And Fields Of Imagined Futures: Indigenous Women And Conservation Practices In Northeast India (2024) – A Review By Rakesh Saikia
Nipasa Dutta and Dejna Daulagupu, in Forests and fields of imagined futures: Indigenous women and conservation practices in Northeast India…
From Text to Praxis: Kalpana Kannabiran on Legal Theory, Caste, and Feminist Thought
Kalpana Kannabiran is a sociologist and legal scholar whose work has focused on the intersections of sociology, law, literature, gender…
The Paradox of ‘Untouchability’: Stigma Below, Immunity Above – Aashirwad Chakravarty
Introduction: From Football Commentary to Assam’s Public Life Language often reveals its paradoxes in the most unexpected places. My reflection…
Who Is This Woman That You Are Talking About? – Jyoti Dalal
How impossible, unattainable ideal images pin down the educated and liberated women of today’s world. In Dostoyevsky’s White Nights, Nastenka…
Posted and Proud: Queer Indian Influencers and Digital Counterpublics – Manav Sharma
Indian society has had a complex and contradictory relationship with the LGBTQ+ community. On one hand, it is home to…
The Ghadar Movement: A Forgotten Struggle by Rana Preet Gill (2025): A Review by Swati Rai
Curious about the literal meaning of the word ‘Ghadar,’ though fully aware that exact translation in another tongue would be an…
Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922 by Alastair McClure (2025): A Review by Ranjan Chatterjee
Alastair McClure’s Trials of Sovereignty: Mercy, Violence, and the Making of Criminal Law in British India, 1857-1922, published by Yoda…
Techno-femininity: Exploring the Media Market of Beauty and Bodies – Ahana Choudhury
Do human bodies only exist in their physiological frame? The question may appear common-sensical. But a critical sociological analysis would…