Interstellar: Bartering Dreams for Reality Among Youths in India – Ravi Prakash Gupta and Abhijit Dasgupta
The movie Interstellar (2014) directed by Christopher Nolan does not just tell the story of astronauts chasing distant planets, it…
Children’s Voices and Agency: Towards a Reflexive Reformulation – Vijitha Rajan
In the fields of childhood studies and the sociology of childhood, the concepts of children’s voice and agency have increasingly…
Left-handedness, Stigma, Rituals and the Everyday: A Sociological Inquiry – Sanya Sharma
Introduction At a New Year’s Party in my apartment, my neighbour, a middle-aged woman, constantly stared at me while I…
Gentrification and Redevelopment In Dharavi: Balancing Urban Transformation With Community Preservation – Aashish Gaur and Natasha Mittal
The term “gentrification” was first coined in the 1960s by British sociologist Ruth Glass in 1964 to describe the displacement…
Whose Academia is it? Global South Still Struggles to Feel Included – Rishiraj Sen
Academia often asserts itself as a space open to dialogue, inclusive in nature, and considerate of diverse knowledge systems. However,…
The Art of Otherization: Locating the Infrastructure of Religious Fundamentalism in Sri Lanka – Diptesh Banerjee
At the base of any architectural setup of ethnocracy is the politics of domination. Whatever shape an ethnocracy takes, it…
Between Resistance and Responsibility: Reimagining Rural Womanhood through Nakta – Anurag Kumar Bauddh
Introduction Growing up in a small village in Uttar Pradesh, I witnessed many rituals and traditions that perplexed and at…
‘Willful Girls’ and Marriage: Reading Gender Equality in Conjugal Relations in Mr & Mrs Mahi & Savi – Deblina Dey
Films can be a powerful tool to confront unequal social relations by offering alternate worldviews. Here, I discuss two films…
Cricket, Colour, and Caste: South Africa’s Equity-Driven WTC Victory And Its Global Implications – Aniruddha Mahajan
Cricket, Colour, and Caste: South Africa’s Equity-Driven WTC Victory And Its Global Implications – Aniruddha MahajanSouth Africa’s victory in the…
Monstrous Masculinities: The Folly of Feminists – Aranya Vadera
Perhaps when Shelly’s (2006) unnamed ‘creature’ walked the streets, beseeching to be loved, held, and understood, he wondered what horrors…