Deconstructing Theory: What’s In It? – Shainal Verma
Theories are nets cast to catch what we call ‘the world’: to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We…
‘Normal’ Women in Cinema – Ashlesha Joshi
The world of cinema, like any other, has found itself faced with increased scrutiny in recent times (and rightly so)…
Serving ‘Traditional’ Food on Instagram: Visuality and Aesthetics – Rituparna Patgiri
Like most of us, I spend my free time looking at Instagram reels. During one such Instagram spree, I came…
Doctor G: Story of Finding a ‘Doctor’s Touch’ – Mayuri Samant and Madhura Joshi
‘Doctor G’ a mainstream Bollywood movie directed by Anubhuti Kashyap and produced by Junglee Pictures (2022) portrays a young male…
Harvesting Consent: Setting the Agenda in the Digital Age – Lee Marsden
With the rise of the internet, it seems that almost everyone now has a platform from which to speak. It…
The Feminist Movement and its relationship with Sociology – Ishita Bagchi
One of the ways in which some scholars have attempted to map the evolution of feminist literature within sociology is…
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…