What Makes a Woman Feminist? – Vaishali Jadon
“I bought a shirt to wear to meet your office friends.” “No, you cannot wear that shirt,” the husband replied. …
India’s Elite Exams: A Crisis Of Integrity And Equity – Sunit Singh
NEET Controversy & NET Debacle The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), a national exam for medical aspirants, has become…
Reflections on the Desire to Jump in Front of a Running Train: The Call of the Void and Human Being – Sohom Roy
Trigger Warning: The essay discusses an experiential phenomenon existing parallel to, while not being convergent with, suicidal thoughts and self-harm.…
The Woman with a Camera in the Field: Moving Images, Narratives and Visual Ethnography – Aiswarya P Raj
“I’m just a paavam[1]small-town wedding shooter, ain’t got no interesting life stories to share with you that’d be worth snappin’…
The Ambedkarite Movement In Uttar Pradesh: An Autoethnographic Reflection – Sankalp Jayant
The gradual rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in India’s political landscape since its founding in 1984 significantly boosted…
Doing Academics: Interpreting Realities, Experiences And Emotion In Fieldwork – Akanksha Sanil
Fieldwork is a crucial element for doing original research, more commonly in disciplines such as sociology, anthropology and economics within…
Liminal Privacy: Quest For Public Intimacy – Medhavi Gupta
A few days ago, I was travelling in a car with my family and we passed by a famous park…
Dasai: Dancing with Alternative Narratives – Mrinalini Paul
Eight-year-old Budhuram Tudu had picked up the Dasai movements by simply watching his group practise their yearly Dasai dance in…
Legality, Precarity, and Lost Childhoods: A Story on Mica-Mining in Jharkhand – Madhubanti Talukdar
The children of Jharkhand, when not collecting ‘dhibra’[i] with the elders, go to school, or play, at the foothills of…
Whispers Of The Divine: The Linguistic Layers In Theyyam Performance – Akhila Krishnan
As a performative ritual, Theyyam is a cult confined to the socio-cultural matrix of northern Kerala. A kaleidoscope of colour…