25 years ago, Nirmala Banerjee wrote the piece “How Real is the Bogey of Feminization?” in which she stated that…
Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India by Arjun Shankar (published…
One would imagine that the current state of politics in India, that is, the rapid movement towards right-wing nationalism and…
A Book Discussion on Who Cares? Care Extraction and the Struggles of Indian Health Workers Edited by Maya John and…
Marriage as an institution has not received adequate attention from the ‘mainstream’ and ‘traditional’ political science. Owing to its relegation…
In the edited volume Sociology of South Asia Postcolonial Legacies, Global Imaginaries (published by Springer in 2022), Gowri Vijayakumar and Smitha Radhakrishnan introduce…
It is never difficult to imagine a good society, but it is never easy to provide a comprehensive program to…
“We need to recognise that India is a collection of minorities, not a ‘Hindu majority’ country.”[i] My daily night walk…
When one attempts to examine the lives lived on the peripheries of society, the perspective largely oscillates between investigating the…
There are some books we read for pleasure. Some, we read to advance our knowledge of the world, others to…