We are Family (And Nation Too): Family Whatsapp Groups as Sites of Everyday Nationalism and Resistance – Manav Sharma
For many of us, the morning scroll is incomplete without that one picture of snow-capped mountains, a glowing sun, and…
Navigating the City through Food, Identity and Belongingness: Humayunpur in Delhi – Madhusmita Devi and Prerona Barman
‘Humayunpur feels like home.’ ‘I feel safe when I am there.’ ‘The food there reminds me of home.’ – …
Social Media and the Broadcasting Bill: Regulation or Intervention? – Alisha Afrin
The media is the new and leading ideological state apparatus of contemporary societies. Note that media in this piece, by…
Politics of Pronunciation: Accents, Identity and Exclusion in Neoliberal India – Anshuman Jha, Aparup Dey, Kirti Sharma, Manya Diptam, Meenu Teotia, Pavithra P. Baiju, Rashmirekha Sahoo and Swastika Patnaik
Accents are a pivotal part of our shared lived experience. The way we speak shapes a lot of things in…
The Dialectics of Nostalgia and Disillusionment Through the Lens of Heller’s A Theory of History – Prarthana Dixit
The recent surge in monarchist sentiment in Nepal reveals a deeply troubling picture of the masses’ disillusionment with democracy. Amish…
The Commodification of Culture: Media, Consumption, and Everyday Practice – Jobeda Akter Rini
In a modern society defined by the screen, digital content and global consumption where culture becomes a commodity, a product…
The Altimetry of Displacement: Reading Queer Biracial Belonging in Postcolonial Literature – Sanandita Chakraborty
Everyone has a journey with their language languages are the way we see this world. They are deeply connected to…
Lana Del Rey-ification of Women: The Political Economy of Melancholic Femininity – Sanandita Chakraborty
You’ve seen her. She’s crying in candlelight, lips smudged, captioned ‘Born to Die’ with 12k likes. The body that moves…
Migration and Me: A Personal Reflection on Internal Mobility and Social Transformation – Sadaf N
Migration is often discussed in statistics, policies, and large-scale trends. But for me, it is deeply personal. It lives in…
Why Sitaare Zameen Par is an Essential Critique of the ‘Normal’ – Soumodip Sinha
It is quite usual to depict the so-called normal on screen. But once in a decade, or two, we come…