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…
Last Rites of Passage: Touch and Intimacy in times of COVID-19
Relatives of a COVID-19 victim being shown the body virtually before cremation in New York City. Misha Friedman/Getty Images “…funerals can…
THE COVID-19 CRISIS AND THE CONCEPT OF CLASS
It is often said that the need for social sciences is felt most sharply in periods of social crisis. When…
रोक्या सखावत हुसैन का ख़ाब-ए-सुल्ताना (Rokeya Sahkawat Hossain’s Sultana’s Dream) – A Translation by Tribhu Nath Dubey – Part II
Links to parts I and III can be found here and here respectively. PART II अब तक हम सिस्टर सारा…
रोक्या सखावत हुसैन का ख़ाब-ए-सुल्ताना (Rokeya Sahkawat Hossain’s Sultana’s Dream) – A Translation by Tribhu Nath Dubey – Part I
Doing Sociology is bringing out a Hindi translation of one of the seminal feminist texts produced in India – Sultana’s Dream…
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.…