The Ghazal Eros: Lyric Queerness in History by Shad Naved (2025): A Review by Yash Singh Sisodiya
Shad Naved’s The Ghazal Eros: Lyric Queerness in History (published by Tulika Books in 2025) is a groundbreaking and genre-defining…
Everyday Toilet Practices in my Childhood: Unveiling the Structures of Caste and Gender – Ankita Chatterjee
I grew up in a Brahmin family in Kolkata during the 1990s and 2000s. Toilets have always been a source…
The Campus Meme Economy: Contextualising Memes in a University Setting – Abhijay Rambabu
Introduction The term meme was introduced by Richard Dawkins in his pathbreaking 1976 book The Selfish Gene. He defined memes…
Labour, Nature and Capitalism: Exploring Labour-Environmental Conflicts in Kerala, India by Silpa Satheesh (2025): A Review by Sony R K
Silpa Satheesh’s Labour, Nature, and Capitalism: Exploring Labour-Environmental Conflicts in Kerala, India, contributes to the existing literature on environmental and…
Institutionalised Cultural Capital in Practice: A Fieldwork Perspective – Amit Yadav and Debashis Pattanaik
Pierre Bourdieu conceptualised cultural capital as a crucial factor in social stratification, shaping access to opportunities and social mobility. There…
A Conversation with James Staples on Meat Eating, Environmental Concerns and Social Identities
James Staples is a Professor of Social Anthropology at Brunel University of London and co-host of The Migration Menu podcast.…
Why Do We Care So Much About Physical Beauty? – Rishiraj Nath
A few days ago, my mother and aunt were talking and discussing potential brides for my cousin, who wants to…
Sociology of Sports: Exploring the Nexus of Race, Class, and Gender – Deepak Rathour
Sport is a pervasive social institution in nearly every society around the world. To ignore sport is to overlook a…
All The Houses I’ve Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us by Kieran Yates (2023) – A Review by Devika Bahadur
“Our homes are not just where we live. They are how we live.” – Kieran Yates All the Houses I’ve…
Pork on the Plate: A Cultural Symbol for Northeast India’s Tribes – Priyojoy Kar and Vivek Kumar Gupta
Amidst the green hills and mist-laden valleys curved in the natural canvas of northeast India, where every river carves stories…