Social Media and the Broadcasting Bill: Regulation or Intervention? – Alisha Afrin
The media is the new and leading ideological state apparatus of contemporary societies. Note that media in this piece, by…
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…
Rituals of Selection: UGC’s New Draft and Politics of Faculty Recruitment in Indian Universities – Vidyasagar Sharma
The ongoing structural and institutional changes in Indian higher education have led to the emergence of highly political academic environments,…
Blending Formality and Informality (In) at RVS – Anjali Sidhwani
As part of a research project awarded through the Shivlal Sawhney Scholarship by the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi,…
The Unmaking of a Republic – Madhubanti Talukdar
The Bhopal of the Begums and Nawabs stands on the brink of destruction. A city’s Muslim past, threatened by the…
Beyond the Narrative: War as an Aberration of Ideology – Md. Abu Salek Khan
Introduction War as a historical event is mostly told in terms of a binary opposition, the winner and the loser.…
Ideology, Conflict and State Control in Higher Education: A Sociological Analysis by Sushree Panigrahi (2021): A Review by Garima Rath
As the name of the book suggests, Ideology, Conflict and State Control in Higher Education: A Sociological Analysis by Sushree…