On June 4, the enormous task of tallying millions of votes for the 18th Lok Sabha election was completed by the Election Commission of India, marking the world’s greatest six-week, seven-phase democratic process. Like many others, I found myself immersed in social media, particularly Instagram’s ‘reel’ section, where I spent hours…
Methodological questions about knowledge construction saw shifts in a colonially mediated modern India. Questions about an Indian way of thinking…
In Sexuality Reimagined: MSM in Modern India (published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023), Shalija Tandon examines the question of how…
Ethnographers before Malinowski: Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870-1922 edited by Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen (published by Berghahn…
Geoffrey Pleyers is an F.R.S-FNRS researcher and professor of Sociology at the University of Louvain, Belgium. He is also the…
Bandana Purkayastha is the Vice President for National Associations in the International Sociological Association (ISA). She is a Board of…
New information and communication technologies have ushered in a world of 24×7 breaking news; Twitter fights; WhatsApp messages; Facebook posts;…
Reeju Ray’s Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom and Knowledge (published by the Oxford University Press in…
A common phrase with which many of us began our Sociology classes at the undergraduate level is ‘Sociology is not…
In this conversation, we discuss Gita Chadha and Renny Thomas’ edited book Mapping Scientific Method: Disciplinary Narrations (published by Routledge…