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.…
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…