Digital Devotion: No Ifs Or Buts? – Himasweeta Sarma
Introduction In today’s fast-paced world, survival constitutes not just bread and butter but also technology. The Internet’s launch on January…
Turup: A Tapestry of Identity, Power, and Resistance – Jahnvi Dwivedi
The cinematic immersion in Turup (2017) is a testament to the collaborative efforts of Ektara Collective. It is made by…
Middle-Class Apartments – Whatsapp Groups, Religion, and Class Politics – Sahithi Sanaka
These observations come from living in a middle-class apartment as a member of the “ladies of the apartment” WhatsApp group.…
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…
In Search of the Nation: Reading Culinary Texts from Colonial Bengal – Rageshree Bhattacharyya
Introduction The nationalist struggle for India’s independence was not just a mere political one. Rather it was an iconoclastic project,…
Women in ‘New’ Nepal: Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries by Seika Sato (2023): A Review by Avantika Jhujhunwala
Seika Sato’s book Women in ‘New’ Nepal: Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries, published by Routledge in…
Race, Class, Parenting and Children’s Leisure: Children’s Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle-class British Indian Families by Utsa Mukherjee (2023): A Review by Aatina Nasir Malik
Utsa Mukherjee’s Race, Class, Parenting and Children’s Leisure: Children’s Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle-class British Indian Families (published by…
A Working Class State of Mind by Colin Burnett (2021): A Review by Aashish Xaxa
For the most part, working-class novels have been written in ‘proper’ English. Even the classic Dickens stories, all of which…
Redefining University Spaces – Upali Bhattacharya
Universities are meant to be free spaces that catalyse critical and scientific thinking, creating conditions for liberty, equality and fraternity.…
Universities as Political Spaces: Caste, Class and Resistance: An interview with Gaurav J. Pathania
Doing Sociology interviewed Dr. Gaurav J. Pathania who is an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University,…