Die, My Love: An Ode to the Unabashed Instability of the Feminine Abject – Tannistha Samanta
In director Lynn Ramsay’s latest film, Die, My Love (2025), female subjects are unapologetically unhinged- caught in a delirium of…
Songs for the Motherland and Scars on Her Skin: A Sociological Take on Nationhood, Gender, and Public Neglect – Antara Misra
Our country has long been imagined as Bharat Mata or Mother India, symbolising a sacred land nurturing and protecting her…
Food, Nutrition, and Labour: The Everyday Lives of Informal Workers in Delhi – Sonu Chauhan
In India, workers, particularly in the unorganised sector, face various social and work-related issues in their everyday lives. They lack…
Beyond the ‘Endgame’: Bastar’s Youth and the Making of a New Present – Sahib Singh Tulsi
Every evening, after dinner, Adivasi students in a government hostel in Bastar sit cross-legged on the floor as their names…
Education and Inequality in Society: Learning from the Lives of Two Migrant Youths – Ishita Sinha
This article is based on the semi-structured interviews of two people I met while working as a teacher in a…
Moving Beyond The Gaze: Rethinking Visual Hegemony and Sensory Hierarchy in Sociological Research – Abhijay Rambabu
Introduction: Visual Hegemony and Sensory Hierarchy Sociological research rests on the implicit yet powerful assumption that valid knowledge is produced…
Community, Category, and the State: Hijras in Contemporary Queer Discourse
Community, Category, and the State: Hijras in Contemporary Queer Discourse A Discussion with Pushpesh Kumar and Sayantan Datta Pushpesh Kumar…
The City that Never Knows Your Name: Loneliness in Urban Bangladesh – Mst. Fahima Akter Rima
There is a particular type of quiet that determines you in a crowd. Not the quiet of an empty room,…
Khatna and the Regulation of Women’s Bodies – Anjali Sidhwani
Violence matters. It wrecks lives. It causes injury and misery. Violence is both a cause and a consequence of inequality.…
Talking About Objects: Material Elicitation as a Method – Anwesha Panigrahi
Objects surely don’t talk. Or do they? The person in that living room gives an account of themselves by responding…