A Book Discussion on Planning Democracy: Modern India’s Quest for Development With Nikhil Menon
Nikhil Menon is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is a historian of modern…
Caste and Partition in Bengal: The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961 by Shekhar Bandyopadhyay and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury (2022): A Review by Rana Abhyendra Singh
Shekhar Bandyopadhyay and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury’s Caste and Partition in Bengal: The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946-1961 (published by…
Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom and Knowledge by Reeju Ray (2023): A Review by Srishti Narain
Reeju Ray’s Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom and Knowledge (published by the Oxford University Press in…
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil by Andrea Wright (2021): A Review by Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil
The secret behind oil as a commodity is labour, Andrea Wright reminds us. Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and…
Bharat Minar – The Tower of a Forgotten India (2019) – Nadja-Christina Schneider
Uday Berry’s nearly eleven-minute animated short film Bharat Minar. The Tower of a Forgotten India (2019) won the Best Fiction…
Unhealed Wounds of Leprosy – A Photo Essay by Rohit Jain
Maruti Bondre, 70, feeds lunch to his wife Chandrakala, at the hostel for leprosy patients and leprosy-cured rehabilitated persons, run…
Understanding Space and Experience in India Through Gopal Guru – E P Sarfras
‘Space’ is a term that has been variously understood throughout history by physicists, mathematicians, and social scientists. It has been…
Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality by Sebanti Chatterjee (2023): A Review by Akash Jash
Sebanti Chatterjee’s captivating book Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality (published by Bloomsbury in 2023) takes readers on…
A Book Discussion on Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality
Sebanti Chatterjee is a cultural anthropologist who is interested in Sound Studies, Gender Studies, and Religious Studies. Occasionally she dabbles…
Hindu Nationalism, Mechanical Reproduction and Symbolic Violence: Aggression as Simulation – Arman Hasan
Introduction In 2023, the prevalence of Hindutva in the virtual space and its link with social media has been the…