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…
Interrogating Communalism: Violence, Citizenship and Minorities in South India by Salah Punathil (2019): A Review by Navaneeth H.
Salah Punathil’s book, Interrogating Communalism, is an important addition to the literature on violence and inter-community relations in India. This…
Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought by Naila Kabeer (1994): A Review by Varsha Gopal
In her book, Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought (1994), Naila Kabeer undertakes a feminist critique of the mainstream…
Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness In India’s Central Himalayas by Radhika Govindrajan (2018): A Review by Jayaprakash Mishra
Drawing on her ethnography in the Kumaon region of the Himalayas, Radhika Govindrajan in the book Animal Intimacies: Beastly Love…
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt (1963): A Review by Sharayu Shejale
The rising popularity and subsequent election of populist leaders worldwide have sparked a conversation both within the academic and the…
Fast, Easy And In Cash: Artisan Hardship And Hope In The Global Economy By Rudi Colloredo Mansfeld And Jason Antrosio (2015): A Review By Anushka Sinha
In Fast, Easy and Cash: Artisan Hardship and Hope in The Global Economy (2015), Rudi Colloredo Mansfeld and Jason Antrosio…
Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan by Matthew S. Hull (2012): A Review by Nikhit Kumar Agrawal
Matthew Hull’s book, Government of Paper, is a result of an ethnographic work conducted in the government offices of the Islamabad Capital…
Climate Justice A Man-Made Problem with a Feminist Solution by Mary Robinson with Caitriona Palmer (Contributor) (2018): A Review by Ushoshi Bandyopadhyay
Throughout this book,Mary Robinson has shed light on the fact that climate crisis is a crisis of humanity. She accounts…
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (2015): A Review by Sampurna Das
Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World is a rich multispecies ethnography, traces the growth of a…
Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India by Akhil Gupta (2012): A Review by Parnika Praleya
Akhil Gupta’s engaging book begins with the puzzle of – a high number of deaths due to poverty in India…