Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras by Radhika Iyengar (2023): A Review by Rana Abhyendra Singh
Radhika Iyengar’s Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras (published by Fourth Estate India) in 2023describes the…
The Final Farewell: Understanding the Last Rites and Rituals of India’s Major Faiths by Minakshi Dewan (2023): A Review by Chittajit Mitra
Death is possibly the only confirmed event that comes with life, but even then in many cases, it is introduced…
Dead in Benaras: Ethnography of Funeral Travelling by Ravi Nandan Singh (2022): A Review by Snigdha Vishnoi
Ravi Nandan’s Dead in Benaras: Ethnography of Funeral Travelling, published by Oxford University Press in 2022, is a compelling ethnographical…
In Pursuit of The Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India by Jocelyn Lim Chua (2014): A Review by Jahnvi Jha
Jocelyn Lim Chua’s In Pursuit of The Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India (University of California Press,…
“Need”: Käthe Kollwitz’s Subversive Account Of Grief – Tanisha Lamichhane
The notion of grief is both time-bound and timeless- to grieve is to be stuck in the moment of loss…