Idi In Iddiyappam: Food as A Weapon In Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey – Ann Rose Davis
Idiyappam, also known as Nool Puttu or Nool Appam, is a famous breakfast dish of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, which…
A Book Discussion on Periyar: A Study in Political Atheism
Karthick Ram Manoharan is a faculty at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He was a Marie Curie…
Mumbai/Bombay: Majoritarian Neoliberalism, Informality, Resistance and Wellbeing edited by Sujata Patel, D Parthasarathy and George Jose (2022): A Review by Suraj Beri
The unpredictability of its economic transformations, the growth of its real estate markets, the competing jurisdictions of its governing systems,…
Dahaad: Love, Sex and Demography – Tannistha Samanta
The “love, sex aur dhoka” genre unfolds chillingly in Amazon Prime Video’s recent offering, Dahaad. Directors Reema Kagti and Zoya…
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici (2004): A Review by Anjali Chauhan
Histories have not only been simply histories but gendered histories, where women, as both subject-object of studies and writer-reader of…
Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems by Sayan Dey (2023): A Review by Nita Mishra
In 2020, Arundhati Roy, famously announced the Covid19 pandemic as a portal pleading for a reimagination of another world, and…
Homelessness and Shelter Houses: Some Insights from the Field in Odisha – Itimayee Behera
Introduction This essay is based on the field work done in Cuttack district, Odisha in the year 2020 on a…
A Book Discussion on The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India
Rahul Ranjan holds the Research Council of Norway funded appointment as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. He…
Piety, Place and Politics: Rethinking the Spatial Imaginations of Jama Masjid – Afeef Ahmed
It was a normal weekday evening in Jama Masjid. There were crowds, both Indian and international, walking around the 16th-century…
Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19: Displacements and Disruptions edited by Melanie Heath, Akosua K. Darkwah, Josephine Beouke-Betts and Bandana Purkayastha (2022): A Review by Chiara Chiavaroli
The book Global feminist autoethnographies during COVID-19: Displacements and Disruptions (published by Routledge in 2022) displays a wide collection of…