Besharam Rang Kahan Dekha: Love, Family, Watan, Sociology – Rukmini Sen
Link to the editorial note and the panel discussion can be found here. Teaching the Social through Popular What does it…
Pathaan, Military Masculinity and the Possibility of a Queer Reading – Pushpesh Kumar
Link to the editorial note and the panel discussion can be found here. Pathaan, an action-thriller film, marked Shah Rukh Khan’s…
Vasantasena’s Lychpin, Memory Games and Re-Membering in Pathaan: A Reading in Three Scenes – Paromita Vohra
Link to the editorial note and the panel discussion can be found here. KYA TUM MUSALMAN HO?: KAL/YESTERDAY (OR, WHICH FILM…
‘Bollywood’, Shahrukh Khan, Pathaan: A Memoir – Gita Chadha
Link to the editorial note and the panel discussion can be found here. Cue I: ‘Bollywood’ My relationship with mainstream and…
Staging Spectres and Spectacle: Of Love, Loss, and Pathaan – Deepa Sreenivas
Link to the editorial note and the panel discussion can be found here. “While carnival lasts, there is no other…
Interrupted Histories: Pathaan, Ambivalent Fans and the Affection for Cinema – Bindu Menon Manil
Link to the editorial note and the panel discussion can be found here. “ I regret supporting Pathan. I still…
Pathaan, Meri Jaan…Memoirs, Analyses and Reflections
In this series, we are trying to examine our personal and professional engagement with the popular, particularly the Hindi film.…
“Need”: Käthe Kollwitz’s Subversive Account Of Grief – Tanisha Lamichhane
The notion of grief is both time-bound and timeless- to grieve is to be stuck in the moment of loss…
Channar Revolt and the Contemporary Indian Context: Caste, Community and the Muslim Woman – Tahseen Fatima
The Channar Revolt that took place in the 19th century in the erstwhile princely state of Travancore reverberates even today.…
“You are asking us to discount all perspectives, but to think in only ‘one’ Perspective”: ‘Common Sense’ in a Private University Sociology Class – Anindita Chakrabarty
A common phrase with which many of us began our Sociology classes at the undergraduate level is ‘Sociology is not…