The digital and everyday social worlds increasingly overlap, with daily tasks—from ordering groceries to paying bills—now performed online. This shift…
For many of us, the morning scroll is incomplete without that one picture of snow-capped mountains, a glowing sun, and…
Introduction At a New Year’s Party in my apartment, my neighbour, a middle-aged woman, constantly stared at me while I…
‘A smile is a curve that sets everything straight’. During the most dispirited times of life when one remembers this…
The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggle (published by Manchester University Press in 2024) by…
As a performative ritual, Theyyam is a cult confined to the socio-cultural matrix of northern Kerala. A kaleidoscope of colour…
Segregated spaces inhabited by Muslims in India have been in the limelight from bearing the brunt of communal riots to…
“Imagine yourself….” Imagine yourself as an ethnographer. You are sitting at the threshold of a house that has been your…
Globalizing Everyday Consumption in India: History and Ethnography edited by Bhaswati Bhattacharya and Henrike Donner (and published by Routledge in 2020)…
Dev Nath Pathak’s book titled In Defence of the Ordinary: Everyday Awakenings (published by Bloomsbury in 2021) presents a compelling…