Shutki, Shedol and the Sylheti community of Assam – Krittika Bhuiya
Image source: When a Bong Cooks (https://whenabongcooks.com) Food is central to our social identities and forms an indispensable part of…
Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic – Nupur Pattanaik
Structural Inequalities and the Pandemic Early in the pandemic, the saying that everyone was in the same boat was heard…
A Phenomenal World: Orientations, Politics, And Self-Preservation – Sujay Mungekar
Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006) is a remarkable book that delves into the mechanics of the world…
Menstruation, Pain and Silence – Ashlesha Gogoi
The human body experiences pain. According to an article published in Nature, pain happens when “neural sensors in the skin,…
Culture Industry and Mass Consumption – Mahmudul Hasan Laskar
“The neon signs which hang over our cities and outshine the natural light of the night with their own are…
Visual Fantasies, Food and Women – Pooja Kalita
A few weeks back, my cousin sister and I planned an evening out to have some food together in Guwahati. …
Nietzsche and the Oblivion in Kashmir – Wajid Abbas
“There were eternities in which it did not exist, and when it is gone, nothing will have happened.” Friedrich Nietzsche, On…
Reframing the Indigenous Rights Movement in North-East India – Thangkhansuan Gualnam
Thangkhansuan Gualnam North-east India is a region rife with preconceived assumptions. Some hold. Others need critical re-examining. The question of…
Domestic Workers: Essential, Vulnerable and Marginalized in the Pandemic – Priyanjali Mitra
Image source: Al Jazeera: File: AP/Aijaz Rahi On 24th March 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a sweeping nationwide lockdown to…
Dr B.R. Ambedkar’s Ideas on Democracy – Pallavi Ghosh
“Constitutional morality is not a natural sentiment. It has to be cultivated. We must realise that our people are yet…