Introduction I was introduced to the term chapri a few years ago through a friend’s dream. Drunk and excited, he…

What has long been the norm in Indian academic setups, and also among the Indian diasporic academic communities abroad, is…

Bottu, a Telugu term referring to a decorative dot put on Hindu women’s foreheads, between the eyebrows, or in the…

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 (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…