Walking Through a Fruit and Vegetable Market in Patiala: Insights on Food and Trust Building – Rituparna Patgiri
I had a short stay of two months in Patiala, a city in Punjab known for its educational institutes like…
Unequal Ground: Favouritism and the Cultural Capital of Caste in Academia – donna
Favouritism[i] is undoubtedly a work that runs into our emotions – where we like somebody/someone over others; it exists in…
The Unmaking of a Republic – Madhubanti Talukdar
The Bhopal of the Begums and Nawabs stands on the brink of destruction. A city’s Muslim past, threatened by the…
Savarna Solidarities In The Ambedkarite Struggle – Jatin Mathur
Recently Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’ Association (BAPSA), a student organization in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) based upon Ambedkar’s ideas and…
Beef, Brahmins, and the Sacred: Navigating Socio-Political Dynamics of The Indian Holy Cow – Sahil Singh
The reverence for the holy cow in India is deeply entrenched in religious, social, and political realms, shaping the country’s…
Sociologists’ Futurity Formation Through Hauntology – Sheng-Hsiang Lance Peng
At its core, Sociology thrives when it casts its gaze outward, going into the knots of human society: its myriad…
Holi Traditions And Social Order: A Study Of The Village Of Jamua – Mihir Keshari
Holi is not just a festival of colours, but rather it’s made up of diverse traditions, some of these traditions…
Notes on Everyday Life, Ethnography, and the Promise of Imagination – Proshant Chakraborty
“Imagine yourself….” Imagine yourself as an ethnographer. You are sitting at the threshold of a house that has been your…
Lost and Found: A Closer Look at Laapataa Ladies – Anjali Chauhan
Kiran Rao’s masterful direction presents a narrative that echoes a clever Indian reimagining of Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors,” enriching the…
Absence of Women In Public Spaces: The Gendered Appropriation Of A Juice Shop – Prarthana Banarji
The smell of nicotine hits me from two meters away. I read the signboard over the shop again – My…