Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India by Brahma Prakash (2023): A Review by Sankar Varma
‘I can’t breathe’ said George Floyd when he was brutally murdered. Remember that – Floyd did not die of COVID-19,…
In Defence of the Ordinary: Everyday Awakenings by Dev Nath Pathak (2021): A Review by Himanshu Nath
Dev Nath Pathak’s book titled In Defence of the Ordinary: Everyday Awakenings (published by Bloomsbury in 2021) presents a compelling…
Global Sociology and Building Bridges: A Conversation with Geoffrey Pleyers
Geoffrey Pleyers is an F.R.S-FNRS researcher and professor of Sociology at the University of Louvain, Belgium. He is also the…
Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India by Srila Roy (2022): A Review by Amya Agarwal
The slogans ‘Naari Sashaktikaran’ (women’s empowerment), ‘Beti Bachaao, Beti Padaao’ (save a girlchild, teach a girlchild) and ‘Nari Shakti’(women power)…
Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak by Madhumita Dutta (2022): A Review by Jagadhatri Singh
Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak by Madhumita Dutta (published by Zubaan in 2022) presents an unfiltered dialogue, among a…
Cinema And the Society: Disturbing Realities of Animal and Advocating For Media Accountability by Sonal Srivastava and Jeetendra Kumar Patel
Cinema is an effective tool for addressing societal issues and shaping collective perceptions, as demonstrated by the review of Slumdog…
Bonalu, Barricades and Majoritarianism: Experiences of Religious Polarisation in Telangana – Somnath Pati
The year was 2016. I had just travelled to the city of Hyderabad, to appear in the EFLU Entrance Examination.…
Mahasweta Devi’s ‘Breast Giver’: A Synopsis – Riddhi Chakraborty
Introduction The story ‘Breast Giver’ was written by Mahasweta Devi in 1987. In this story, the author talks about Jashoda,…
Social Policy for Women in Pakistan by Sara Rizvi Jafree (2023): A Review by Adhvaidha Kalidasan
Sara Rizvi Jafree’s seminal work Social Policy for Women in Pakistan (published by Springer in 2023) is a remarkable and…
Mockery as Power: Aesthetics of Caste Discrimination in India – Ankur Kumar
The act of mocking someone or something is to laugh at someone in an unkind way. It is an act…