The Epistemic Departure of Art: Thinking towards a Post-Pandemic Future – Sankar Varma
Introduction COVID-19 cases have retreated but the fetters of the virus continue to impact us. It brought about a terrible…
Instant Access, Unequal Knowledge and Democracy – Maitrayee Chaudhuri
New information and communication technologies have ushered in a world of 24×7 breaking news; Twitter fights; WhatsApp messages; Facebook posts;…
In Pursuit of The Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India by Jocelyn Lim Chua (2014): A Review by Jahnvi Jha
Jocelyn Lim Chua’s In Pursuit of The Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India (University of California Press,…
Media Discourse in Contemporary India: A Study of Television News by Sudeshna Devi (2022): A Review by Aashirwad Chakravarty
The book Media Discourse in Contemporary India: A Study of Television News by Sudeshna Devi (published by Routledge in 2022)…
Body, Health and Society: A Conversation with V. Sujatha
V. Sujatha is a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), School of Social Sciences (SSS),…
Translating Museums: A Counterhistory of South Asian Museology by Shaila Bhatti (2012): A Review by Akash Bharadwaj
Shaila Bhatti’s Translating Museums: A Counterhistory of South Asian Museuology, published in 2012 by Routledge, traces the formation of Lahore…
Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts by Mayur R. Suresh (2023): A Review by Srishti Narain
The long-routinized application of anti-terror laws in contemporary India belies the most accessible theorisation of them as being representative of…
Sociological Imagination in Contemporary Geopolitics – Sacnik
Mainstream geopolitics and sociology are strange bedfellows. Global foreign policy or supranational agenda in most of the post-war era was…
The ‘Dalit Idea Of India’ or The ‘Idea Of A Dalit India?’ – Nation, People And Power Politics – Manas Patra
Introduction “What is the idea of India”? I posed this question to some of my colleagues and friends at IIT…
The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India by Rahul Ranjan (2023): A Review by Chetna Kuanr
Rahul Ranjan’s book The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India (Cambridge University Press, 2023) examines the representation…