Rat Trap: Coal Mining And Oppressed Communities – Sujan Bhakat
The documentary film Rat Trap directed by Rupesh Kumar Sahu in 2022 explores the lives of rat-hole coal miners (Santhals…
Horses, Caste, and Grooms in Northern India – Vaishali Khandekar
No Horse for Dalit Grooms A new pattern of violence has emerged where Dalit men have been attacked for riding…
You Are Not An ‘Ideal’ Brahmin: A Reflexive Note – Bhawesh Pant
Recent socio-anthropological studies have made the concept of reflexivity (Wilson & Karliova, 2021) apparent by drawing attention to researchers’ inter-subjective…
The Caste Question in Hindi Cinema: The Politics of Identity Representation in Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai – Sanhita Chatterjee
Post-liberalisation, the Hindi film industry in Mumbai has increasingly embraced stories that portray the lives of the elite to cater…
The Oxford Handbook of Caste edited by Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet (2023): A Review by Ankush Pal
The notion of caste is often seen as a remnant of the past, which India’s modernisation and development would push…
Social Mobility, Identities and Ethnography: An Interview with Divya Vaid
Divya Vaid is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She has an MSc and…
Chapri Fashion: A Disruption of Cultural Domination in the Field of Men’s Fashion in India – Sohom Roy
Introduction I was introduced to the term chapri a few years ago through a friend’s dream. Drunk and excited, he…
The Story of My ‘Imperfect’ English – Vadivel Chinnadurai
What has long been the norm in Indian academic setups, and also among the Indian diasporic academic communities abroad, is…
Gendering Dalit Christian Experience Through Bottu – Jidugu Kavya Harshitha
Bottu, a Telugu term referring to a decorative dot put on Hindu women’s foreheads, between the eyebrows, or in the…
On Tuesdays, We Eat Veg – Mahashewta Bhattacharya
Vegetarianism as a day marked off every week had crept into their nuclear household at least a decade after Sneha…