Practices of the State: Muslims, Law and Violence in India by Tanweer Fazal (2024): A Review by Mamoon Bhuyan
In his book Practices of the State: Muslims, Law and Violence in India (published by Three Essays Collective in 2024),…
Governing Forests: State, Laws, and Citizenship in India’s Forests by Arpitha Kodiveri (2024): A Review by Saurabh Hatkar
On 26th June 2024, I presented my first-year board paper review with external examiners Sophie Haines and Clare Barnes, both…
Gendered Bodies and Worlds of Labour: Re-Conceptualising Dignity After Puttaswamy vs. Union of India by Kalpana Kannabiran and Devi Jagani (2024): A Review by Mihir Rajamane
In Gendered Bodies and Worlds of Labour: Re-Conceptualising Dignity After Puttaswamy vs. Union of India (published by Zubaan in 2024),…
Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India by Oishik Sircar (2024): A Review by Javaria Farooqui
Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India by Oishik Sircar (published by Cambridge University Press)…
Slum Acts (After the Postcolonial) by Veena Das (2022): A Review by Chakraverti Mahajan
In her quest to understand the relationship between extreme violence and how it seeps into everyday life, Veena Das has…
Lost and Found: A Closer Look at Laapataa Ladies – Anjali Chauhan
Kiran Rao’s masterful direction presents a narrative that echoes a clever Indian reimagining of Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors,” enriching the…
Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India by Brahma Prakash (2023): A Review by Sankar Varma
‘I can’t breathe’ said George Floyd when he was brutally murdered. Remember that – Floyd did not die of COVID-19,…
Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts by Mayur R. Suresh (2023): A Review by Srishti Narain
The long-routinized application of anti-terror laws in contemporary India belies the most accessible theorisation of them as being representative of…
Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom and Knowledge by Reeju Ray (2023): A Review by Srishti Narain
Reeju Ray’s Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom and Knowledge (published by the Oxford University Press in…
Keep Out: How India’s Forest Department Defines Its Jurisdiction – Divya Godbole
In March 2023, a Sarus crane that Mohammed Arif Khan from Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi district had cared for was confiscated…