The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India by Urvashi Butalia (2017): A Review by Simona Sarma
“There is no way we can begin to understand what Partition was about, unless we look at how people remember…
The Political Party as a Family: Gendered Insights from West Bengal – Proma Ray Chaudhury
In the trajectory of post-independent India’s electoral democracy, networks of family and dynasty have conditioned women’s access to elite spaces…
Grief and Collective Mourning: What life doesn’t teach us, grief does | Anuradha Bose
It was 7:00 am as my alarm went off. The sun is shining bright… filling my room… the birds chirping…
Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics by Cynthia Enloe (2014): A Review by Varsha Gopal
Cynthia Enloe is one of the pioneering theorists in feminist international relations. Feminist IR theory emerged as a change from…
Classroom Cultures- Siddharth Parambi
I help teachers in Bangalore create more inspiring learning experiences for their students. This work is not specialized, like developing…
TO MARRY, OR NOT TO MARRY?
The conversation surrounding marriage in urban, middle-class India comes in many shades. We grow up hearing that marriages are between…
Last Rites of Passage: Touch and Intimacy in times of COVID-19
Relatives of a COVID-19 victim being shown the body virtually before cremation in New York City. Misha Friedman/Getty Images “…funerals can…
THE COVID-19 CRISIS AND THE CONCEPT OF CLASS
It is often said that the need for social sciences is felt most sharply in periods of social crisis. When…
Visual Ethnography and Filmmaking: A Conversation with Lina Fruzzetti and Ákos Östör
The Doing Sociology team interviewed social anthropologists Prof. Lina Fruzzetti of Brown University and Prof. Akos Ostor of Wesleyan University.…
Visual Ethnography and Filmmaking: A Conversation with Lina Fruzzetti and Ákos Östör
The Doing Sociology team interviewed social anthropologists Prof. Lina Fruzzetti of Brown University and Prof. Akos Ostor of Wesleyan University.…