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…
Brown Saviors And Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, And The Global Politics Of Help In India By Arjun Shankar (2023): A Review By Shradha Nediyedath
Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India by Arjun Shankar (published…
Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia by Divya Cherian (2023): A Review by Alfisha Sabri
One would imagine that the current state of politics in India, that is, the rapid movement towards right-wing nationalism and…
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…
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…
Caste: The Lies that Divide Us by Isabel Wilkerson (2020): A Review by Krishan Kumar
Caste has been a persistent and defining principle of inequality and discrimination in India. In recent decades this has become…
Potters Without a Wheel: Ethnography of the Mritishilpis in Kolkata by Saswati Bhattacharya: A Review by Vanshika Yadav
Saswati Bhattacharya’s book Potters without a Wheel: Ethnography of the Mritshilpis in Kolkata, published by Routledge in 2022, takes the…