Reviewing Radha Kumar’s brilliantly written book Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900-1975 (published by…
Early in 2022 a section of social media users who identified themselves as men’s rights activists wanted a marriage ban…
Maroona Murmu is currently a Professor of History at Jadavpur University. She has written a number of articles on gender…
“Apes, too, have organs that can grasp, but they do not have hands.” Martin Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking? “The…
In India, the term ‘social distancing’ has a history that is closely associated with caste. The term ‘social distancing’ has…
An Online Panel Discussion on Remembering Gail Omvedt: Reflections and Lessons was organized by Doing Sociology on 2nd October 2021.…
Universities are meant to be free spaces that catalyse critical and scientific thinking, creating conditions for liberty, equality and fraternity.…
The Doing Sociology team interviewed Prof. Leela Fernandes. She is the Director of the Stanley D. Golub Chair of International…
On 30th September 2015, BBC reported the lynching of a 50-year-old man named Mohammed Aklaq in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh.[i] Aklaq…
Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006) is a remarkable book that delves into the mechanics of the world…