Tale Of a Marriage In COVID Times: Of ‘Culture’ And its Essentials – Swati Singh
The COVID-19 pandemic has come as a jolt for many of the taken for granted ways of life. In this…
Friendships and Ideas of Social Appropriateness – Pranoti Chirmuley and Florian Pereira
This is a story of two friends. It draws upon conversations on WhatsApp during the early days of the lockdown.…
Understanding the Home as a Care Unit amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic – Jagriti Gangopadhyay
Introduction Phrases such as physical distancing, quarantine and isolation have become a part of common parlance due to COVID-19. Long…
Revisiting Fokora-Jujona: Assamese Proverbs and Gender Ideology in Assam -Dhriti Sonowal
“Gosot kothal oothot tel, No khaootei sel bel” Speaking in one’s mother tongue is ‘natural’. It is a taken for granted…
The Shifting Ontologies of Death and COVID-19-Veenat Arora
Homo sapiens are the only species capable of reflecting upon its mortality. People have sought to make sense of death…
Urban Sociology Lessons for the COVID-19 Pandemic from Edward Norton’s Movie Motherless Brooklyn – Varun Patil
Amazon Prime India dropped Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn to its viewer’s right in the middle of a raging pandemic. It…
Battling Prejudice: A Story of Care and Hate in COVID-19 times- Jyoti Sinha
South Asian Workers’ Center (SAWC)[i] is proud to have volunteers who are from the South Asian community, as well as those…
Populist Politics in Pandemic Times: Symbols, Performances, and Rituals-Akanksha Indora
The last decade has seen the rise of populism globally. India has been no exception. While considerable scholarly attention has…
RISK SOCIETY AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC-Nabajyoti Saikia
The COVID-19 crisis, which began in Wuhan in the Hubei province of China has changed everyone’s lives across the globe.…
The Ruins of All Spaces: Violence, Body, and Topography – Arnav Das Sharma
At one point in James Joyce’s modernist masterpiece, Ulysses, the character Stephen Dedalus presciently observes that history is a nightmare from…