A Call for Internet Voting in India: Register, Selfie-check, Vote, Verify – Aditya Raj and Himanshu Sharma
India is the largest democracy in the world. Our country conducts the world’s biggest elections with great pride and accountability.…
The Cyborgian Citizen? Or Subscriber Citizen? Enumeration, Denizenship, and the Indian Documentary State – Suhash Bhattacharjee
In June 2026, a Ministry of External Affairs official during a press conference made a statement while answering questions from…
Of Promises, Permissions and Possible Lives in Main Wapas Aaunga – Jyoti Dalal
In Imtiaz Ali’s Main Waapis Aaunga, the promise to return finds its softer counterpart in the permission to leave. If…
Mandai Metro Station: Inclusion by Exclusion – Soumya Khandate
At Pune’s Mahatma Phule Mandai, vendors of vegetables, flowers, bangles and bamboo have spent generations building their trade. Then the…
Munshi Premchand at 146: Finding a Sociologist in a Literary Icon – Vinay Suhalka
I read my first Premchand short story in grade 4, aged 10, as part of my school Hindi syllabus. It…
The Weight of Listening: Social Life After Witnessing Another Person’s Trauma – Suadath V
We tend to think of sexual violence through the lenses of survivors or of institutions. On one side, the focus…
Why the Best Recent Film About Hyderabad is from Malayalam Cinema – Sukruta Alluri
As Peddi becomes the highest-grossing film in Tollywood this year, while simultaneously courting controversy over its treatment of women actors,…
Scattered Across the Field: Learning to Read Silence Along the Brahmaputra – Subhechha Bharatiya
The question sounded simple. “Why did you leave?” I had asked it many times before. During earlier fieldwork in Delhi,…
Laughing at Honour: Women’s Agency Beyond Respectability Politics in Maa Behen – Bonti Neog
Paradox of the Perfect Woman Laughter does not rectify systemic inequalities; rather, it signifies a rejection of fear-based control of…
Die, My Love: An Ode to the Unabashed Instability of the Feminine Abject – Tannistha Samanta
In director Lynn Ramsay’s latest film, Die, My Love (2025), female subjects are unapologetically unhinged- caught in a delirium of…