Our Burden of Grief: Baghjan and the Gas Blowout by Sanjay Barbora, Dolly Kikon and Noihrit Gogoi (2025): A Review by Dixita Deka
On 27 May 2026, the Baghjan Blowout in Tinsukia, Assam completes six years. Reading Our Burden of Grief: Baghjan and…
Thinking With “Indifference”: How to Care Immanently for Dogs, Cows, and Other Beings – A review of Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being by Naisargi N. Davé (2025) – Alexios Tsigkas
What would a life lived in difference, and perhaps indifferently toward difference, look like? This is the question at the…
Beings and Beasts: Human-Animal Relations at The Margins edited by Ambika Aiyadurai and Prashant Ingole (2025): A Review by Sayan Banerjee
Global academia in Social Sciences and Humanities is experiencing an ‘animal turn’ where animals and plants are finding a centre-stage…
Exploring Labour and Environmental Conflicts in Kerala, India with Silpa Satheesh
Silpa Satheesh is working as an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode. Her primary areas of interest…
Labour, Nature and Capitalism: Exploring Labour-Environmental Conflicts in Kerala, India by Silpa Satheesh (2025): A Review by Sony R K
Silpa Satheesh’s Labour, Nature, and Capitalism: Exploring Labour-Environmental Conflicts in Kerala, India, contributes to the existing literature on environmental and…
A Conversation with James Staples on Meat Eating, Environmental Concerns and Social Identities
James Staples is a Professor of Social Anthropology at Brunel University of London and co-host of The Migration Menu podcast.…
Not Just for the Privileged: An Analysis of Assam’s Case for a Green Transition – Jeherul Bhuyan
On World Environment Day (June 5), as policymakers, citizens, and students revisit the pledges of sustainability, a persistent and disconcerting…
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience And What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley (2011): A Review by Harshvardhan Tripathy
The ‘nature vs. nurture’ debate, the question of whether human behaviour is determined by inherent biological predispositions (nature) or shaped…
Social Sciences and the Politics of Organic Metaphors – Madiha Tariq
I recently revisited two seminal works in urban studies — Susan Roberts’ (1991) critique of urban life cycles and David…
When Trees Fall, Who Decides? Revisiting Legal Power and Territorial Control in the Name of Conservation – Shailendra Ahirwar
Introduction The recent uproar over the Telangana government’s plan to cut down over 400 acres of trees in Hyderabad’s Kancha…