Why We Need Riskier Playgrounds – Pitamber Kaushik
When we picture a playground, stereotypical images often come to mind: colourful plastic slides, tubes, bridges, nets, and rubberised floors.…
The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21st Century – A Book Discussion with Surinder Singh Jodhka
Surinder Singh Jodhka is a Professor of Sociology at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), Jawaharlal Nehru…
Intimacy and Injury: In the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa edited by Nicky Falkof, Shilpa Phadke and Srila Roy (2022): A Review by Sabeeha Shaheen
Intimacy and Injury: In the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa edited by Nicky Falkof, Shilpa Phadke and Srila Roy…
Debating Education in India: Issues and Concerns by Maya John (2023): A Review by Joyeeta Dey
Debating Education in India: Issues and Concerns by Maya John (published by Tulika Books in 2023) provides a historically informed…
Identity and Marginality in Northeast India: Challenges for Social Science Research edited by Hoineilhing Sitlhou (2023): A Review by Vijitha Rajan
Identity and Marginality in Northeast India: Challenges for Social Science Research edited by Hoineilhing Sitlhou and published by Orient BlackSwan…
Ethnographers before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922 edited by Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen (2022): A Review by Ashwin Tripathi
Ethnographers before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922 edited by Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen (published by Berghahn…
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)…