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…
A Match Made in Heaven: Exploring Love, Sex, and Relationships From a Disabled Lens – Kavya Mukhija and Aparajita Chatterjee
Despite the overall U.S. first-marriage rate for ages 18 to 49 being 48.9 per 1,000, for people with disabilities, it…
The Illegitimate Child of the Motherland – Shahin Afrin
“Where are you from?” “My Abba’s village is from Jonia in Barpeta district.” “Oh! My village is Goroimari (near Jonia);…
Pedagogical Lessons on Sex-Gender-Sexuality and Feminism(s) in Why Women Kill (Season 1) – Vijitha Rajan
Why Women Kill is a dark comedy-drama anthology series from the United States, made by Marc Cherry. Each season features…
Jetho Lalwani’s Mother, I Shall Return: Sindhi Contribution to Indian Freedom Struggle – Soni Wadhwa
This is the second essay in the series of essays on Sindhi language and literature in India. With my essays,…
War for Data: Nations, Platforms and Rights – Rishiraj Sen
Scholarship about digital platforms has concentrated on economic and labour-related issues (Burbano 2021; Arnoldi, Bosua and Dirksen 2021). Or on…