A Working Class State of Mind by Colin Burnett (2021): A Review by Aashish Xaxa
For the most part, working-class novels have been written in ‘proper’ English. Even the classic Dickens stories, all of which…
Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir by Ather Zia (2021): A Review by Amna Majeed
Ather Zia’s Resisting Disappearance (published by Zubaan Books) is an imperative and urgent text that documents the modes of resistance…
Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians – Narratives from India and Beyond by Jagriti Gangopadhyay (2021): A Review by Deepali Aparajita Dungdung
In her book Culture, Context and Aging of Older Indians: Narratives from India and Beyond (2021) published by Springer Nature,…
Sociological Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic in India: Redefining the Normal Edited by Gopi Devdutt Tripathy, Anurita Jalan and Mala Kapur Shankardass (2021): A Review by Sriti Ganguly
When the pandemic arrived, suddenly, we were gazing at a world turned upside down. As G.D. Tripathy writes in the…
Graphic Migrations: Precarity and Gender in India and the Diaspora (2021) by Kavita Daiya: A Review by Aatina Nasir Malik
Graphic Migrations written by Kavita Daiya and published by Yoda Press, examines the 1947 Partition through the frame of the…
Social Scientist in South Asia: Personal Narratives, Social Forces and Negotiations edited by Achla Pritam Tandon, Gopi Devdutt Tripathy and Rashi Bhargava (2020): A Review by Rituparna Patgiri
It is a happy coincidence that I completed reading the edited volume titled Social Scientist in South Asia: Personal Narratives,…
Living with Oil and Coal: Resource Politics and Militarization in North East India (2020) by Dolly Kikon: A Review by Pratisha Borborah
The book Living with Oil and Coal by Dolly Kikon is an ethnographic work done in the foothills of Assam…
The Anthropology of News and Journalism: Global Perspectives by Elizabeth S. Bird (ed.) (2010): A Review by Suanmuanlian Tonsing
The Anthropology of News and Journalism book provides insights to meld the dynamics of anthropological dimensions with media studies. The…
Mother: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott (2019): A Review by Arushi Sahay
Sarah Knott’s book, Mother: An Unconventional History, is an autobiographical, semi-academic account of the history of mothering in North America…
Forest of Tigers: People, Politics and Environment in the Sundarbans by Annu Jalais (2011): A Review by Camellia Biswas
Forest of Tigers is a deluge of a detailed anthropological account on the intractable lives of Sundarban islanders, published a…