Sociology of Sports: Issues and Trends
Sociology of Sports: Issues and Trends Balbir Singh Aulakh is a doctoral scholar at the School of Habitat Studies, Tata…
Liberalised India, Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals by Anshu Srivastava (2022): A Review by Meghna Roy
The middle classes in India are typically passive in activism, yet election strategies cater to their preferences. Anshu Srivastava’s Liberalised…
Foreseeing the Ultra-Conservative Backlash: Space, Time and Ways of Seeing: The Performance Culture of Kutiyattam by Mundoli Narayanan (2023): A Review by Sankar Varma
Introduction The word ‘classical’ is problematic today with the carving out of a convenient space that distorts history to its…
Becoming a Farmer Women in Rural West Bengal, India by Raktima Mukhopadhyay, Itishree Pattnaik and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (2023): A Review by Ritwika Patgiri
25 years ago, Nirmala Banerjee wrote the piece “How Real is the Bogey of Feminization?” in which she stated that…
Brown Saviors And Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, And The Global Politics Of Help In India By Arjun Shankar (2023): A Review By Shradha Nediyedath
Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India by Arjun Shankar (published…
Walking Through a Fruit and Vegetable Market in Patiala: Insights on Food and Trust Building – Rituparna Patgiri
I had a short stay of two months in Patiala, a city in Punjab known for its educational institutes like…
Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia by Divya Cherian (2023): A Review by Alfisha Sabri
One would imagine that the current state of politics in India, that is, the rapid movement towards right-wing nationalism and…
Unequal Ground: Favouritism and the Cultural Capital of Caste in Academia – donna
Favouritism[i] is undoubtedly a work that runs into our emotions – where we like somebody/someone over others; it exists in…
The Unmaking of a Republic – Madhubanti Talukdar
The Bhopal of the Begums and Nawabs stands on the brink of destruction. A city’s Muslim past, threatened by the…
Savarna Solidarities In The Ambedkarite Struggle – Jatin Mathur
Recently Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’ Association (BAPSA), a student organization in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) based upon Ambedkar’s ideas and…