Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India by Arjun Shankar (published…
One would imagine that the current state of politics in India, that is, the rapid movement towards right-wing nationalism and…
Favouritism[i] is undoubtedly a work that runs into our emotions – where we like somebody/someone over others; it exists in…
Recently Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’ Association (BAPSA), a student organization in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) based upon Ambedkar’s ideas and…
The reverence for the holy cow in India is deeply entrenched in religious, social, and political realms, shaping the country’s…
Caste has been a persistent and defining principle of inequality and discrimination in India. In recent decades this has become…
Saswati Bhattacharya’s book Potters without a Wheel: Ethnography of the Mritshilpis in Kolkata, published by Routledge in 2022, takes the…
Jan Breman’s book Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again: The Social History of Bondage and Neo-Bondage of Labour in India,…
Introduction The story ‘Breast Giver’ was written by Mahasweta Devi in 1987. In this story, the author talks about Jashoda,…
The act of mocking someone or something is to laugh at someone in an unkind way. It is an act…