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…
What does the Popularity of Cooking Channels tell us about Class and Gender in India? – Rituparna Patgiri
‘Your mango peda (a sweet) looks delicious. Please share the recipe’, said my friend. I told her that she should…
Doing Digital Ethnography during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Banhishikha Ghosh
The COVID-19 induced global health crisis has affected social researchers, sociologists and social anthropologists in particular, in myriad ways. Ethnography…
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the concept of Network Society – Samujjal Ray
Introduction The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 ushered in dramatic changes in our everyday life. A key change…
The Political Party as a Family: Gendered Insights from West Bengal – Proma Ray Chaudhury
In the trajectory of post-independent India’s electoral democracy, networks of family and dynasty have conditioned women’s access to elite spaces…
Grief and Collective Mourning: What life doesn’t teach us, grief does | Anuradha Bose
It was 7:00 am as my alarm went off. The sun is shining bright… filling my room… the birds chirping…
TO MARRY, OR NOT TO MARRY?
The conversation surrounding marriage in urban, middle-class India comes in many shades. We grow up hearing that marriages are between…