Yaari: An Anthology on Friendship by Women and Queer Folx edited by Shilpa Phadke and Nithila Kanagasabai (2023): A Review by Taanya Kapoor
There are some books we read for pleasure. Some, we read to advance our knowledge of the world, others to…
Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon by Syed Farid Alatas and Vineeta Sinha (2017) A Review by Neeraj Naidu
The sociology curriculum of most universities legitimizes, institutionalizes, and reproduces not just the fact that the origin of sociology as…
Politics of Space and Geography in Monyul, Arunachal Pradesh: A Conversation with Swargajyoti Gohain
Swargajyoti Gohain is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University, Sonepat, Haryana. Her monograph Imagined Geographies in…
Caste: The Lies that Divide Us by Isabel Wilkerson (2020): A Review by Krishan Kumar
Caste has been a persistent and defining principle of inequality and discrimination in India. In recent decades this has become…
Potters Without a Wheel: Ethnography of the Mritishilpis in Kolkata by Saswati Bhattacharya: A Review by Vanshika Yadav
Saswati Bhattacharya’s book Potters without a Wheel: Ethnography of the Mritshilpis in Kolkata, published by Routledge in 2022, takes the…
Animal Farm Revisited: A Re-examination of George Orwell’s Classic – Aarya Dubey
Right at the start of Animal Farm, George Orwell establishes that it is a fable in which animals exhibit human-like…
Dead in Benaras: Ethnography of Funeral Travelling by Ravi Nandan Singh (2022): A Review by Snigdha Vishnoi
Ravi Nandan’s Dead in Benaras: Ethnography of Funeral Travelling, published by Oxford University Press in 2022, is a compelling ethnographical…
African Clusters in India by Koyal Verma (2023): A Review by Sara Bardhan
In the last few decades, migration and globalisation have become the foci of extensive investigation across disciplines, including in urban…
Rural Labour in a Caste Polity: Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again by Jan Breman (2023): A Review by Madhuri Xalxo
Jan Breman’s book Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again: The Social History of Bondage and Neo-Bondage of Labour in India,…
The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s Time for Radical Change
A Discussion on The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s Time for Radical Change With Raewyn Connell…