Commercialization of Emotions and the Emergence of a People-Pleasing Attitude: Interrogating the Relationship – Shangamitra Chakraborty
The last few decades have seen marked shifts in the global economy. While these shifts are many and varied, this…
Who is Encroaching? Narratives of Land encroachment in Kantara – Kanchan Biswas and Kumuda Chandra Panigrahi
Kantara: A legend (2022) is an anthropological action thriller film that flags off issues of tribal and forest land encroachment,…
Green Education Systems: Towards Ecocentric Pedagogical Paradigms – Sayan Dey
This short account is about my monograph Green Academia: Towards Eco-friendly Education Systems, published by Routledge in 2022.[i] I share…
Politics of Life and Margins – Vijitha Rajan
It hit the headlines recently that the Mumbai Corporation draped many slums in the city with curtains and posters ahead…
The Peda of Matabari: Religious and Economic Significance – Rituparna Patgiri
As soon as the trip to visit Agartala – Tripura’s capital city was made, I started making enquiries about what…
An Analysis of Tamasha Using Simmel’s Theory of Metropolis and Mental Life – Ayushi Dutta
George Simmel is widely regarded as a pioneer of Urban Sociology. The Metropolis & Mental Life (1903), despite being published…
Resolving Disciplinary Antagonisms: Learning From K. Balagopal – Anamika Das
This essay is a reflection of a student of Sociology, a discipline that one has pursued for more than seven…
Dispossession v/s Development – The paradox of ‘Creative Destruction’ – Kirti Koushika
Humans transform through their socioeconomic interactions, eventually altering the environment in which they reside. They make continuous efforts to mould…
Understanding Hannah Arendt ‘s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil – Srestha Chatterjee
As someone holding a Master’s degree in Sociology, reading Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil[i]…
Sociological Perspective, Identity Crisis and Educational Practice – Vijitha Rajan
The very nature of sociological imagination is that it unsettles our everyday beliefs and practices. Sociological imagination questions our common…