Debating Education in India: Issues and Concerns by Maya John (2023): A Review by Joyeeta Dey
Debating Education in India: Issues and Concerns by Maya John (published by Tulika Books in 2023) provides a historically informed…
Identity and Marginality in Northeast India: Challenges for Social Science Research edited by Hoineilhing Sitlhou (2023): A Review by Vijitha Rajan
Identity and Marginality in Northeast India: Challenges for Social Science Research edited by Hoineilhing Sitlhou and published by Orient BlackSwan…
Ethnographers before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922 edited by Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen (2022): A Review by Ashwin Tripathi
Ethnographers before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922 edited by Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen (published by Berghahn…
Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India by Brahma Prakash (2023): A Review by Sankar Varma
‘I can’t breathe’ said George Floyd when he was brutally murdered. Remember that – Floyd did not die of COVID-19,…
In Defence of the Ordinary: Everyday Awakenings by Dev Nath Pathak (2021): A Review by Himanshu Nath
Dev Nath Pathak’s book titled In Defence of the Ordinary: Everyday Awakenings (published by Bloomsbury in 2021) presents a compelling…
Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India by Srila Roy (2022): A Review by Amya Agarwal
The slogans ‘Naari Sashaktikaran’ (women’s empowerment), ‘Beti Bachaao, Beti Padaao’ (save a girlchild, teach a girlchild) and ‘Nari Shakti’(women power)…
Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak by Madhumita Dutta (2022): A Review by Jagadhatri Singh
Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak by Madhumita Dutta (published by Zubaan in 2022) presents an unfiltered dialogue, among a…
Social Policy for Women in Pakistan by Sara Rizvi Jafree (2023): A Review by Adhvaidha Kalidasan
Sara Rizvi Jafree’s seminal work Social Policy for Women in Pakistan (published by Springer in 2023) is a remarkable and…
A Book Discussion on Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa
A Book Discussion on Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa Edited by Nicky…
The Indian Village: Rural Lives in the 21st Century by Surinder Singh Jodhka (2023): A Review by Anjali Chauhan
I started reading this book with my own (mis)understanding of the “rural” and with the whole bag of myths and…