The City that Never Knows Your Name: Loneliness in Urban Bangladesh – Mst. Fahima Akter Rima
There is a particular type of quiet that determines you in a crowd. Not the quiet of an empty room,…
Khatna and the Regulation of Women’s Bodies – Anjali Sidhwani
Violence matters. It wrecks lives. It causes injury and misery. Violence is both a cause and a consequence of inequality.…
Talking About Objects: Material Elicitation as a Method – Anwesha Panigrahi
Objects surely don’t talk. Or do they? The person in that living room gives an account of themselves by responding…
A Sociology of Fermented Foods: Who Forgot, Who Remembered, And Who Profits? – Ananya Roy Pratihar
Scroll through any social media platform, particularly during the summer months, and one encounters a proliferation of short-form videos like…
The Making and Unmaking of Domestic Workers in India: A conundrum of Data, Law and Policy – Aditi Yajnik
Introduction: Domestic Workers at the Margins of Labour Law Every year, Jantar Mantar becomes the centre of domestic worker mobilisations…
On Women, Artificial Intelligence and Its Real Consequences – Shimaila Mushtaq
AI has raised concerns and anxieties regarding loss of jobs, digital scams, data privacy, geopolitics, and even the potential to…
Understanding ‘Shame’ in the Judicial Process – Ankita Chatterjee
Introduction Judicial decisions are supposed to uphold objective fidelity to facts and legal doctrines. Emotions are supposed to be kept…
Eid Away from Home: Ritual, Identity, and the Experience of Distance – Sanjida Tamanna Oishee
The morning of Eid used to arrive before I even opened my eyes. It lived in the sounds, the quiet…
Do Social Studies Need Semantic Validation from the Natural Sciences?: Opinions and Questions – Niloy Pratim Kashyap
Some two years ago, I wrote an article for Doing Sociology, emphasising the need for a more rigorous critical lens…
Between the Toilet and the Field Lies a Story: Gender, Leisure, and Infrastructural Refusal in Rural Uttar Pradesh – Neelima
Introduction: Revisiting the Village, Rethinking the Toilet Over the past few years, I have had the opportunity to visit my…