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 (published by Cambridge University Press)…
In her quest to understand the relationship between extreme violence and how it seeps into everyday life, Veena Das has…
Kiran Rao’s masterful direction presents a narrative that echoes a clever Indian reimagining of Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors,” enriching the…
‘I can’t breathe’ said George Floyd when he was brutally murdered. Remember that – Floyd did not die of COVID-19,…
The long-routinized application of anti-terror laws in contemporary India belies the most accessible theorisation of them as being representative of…
Reeju Ray’s Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom and Knowledge (published by the Oxford University Press in…
In March 2023, a Sarus crane that Mohammed Arif Khan from Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi district had cared for was confiscated…
The central theme of The Violent Domestic: Law, Its Practice, And Strategies of Survival by Madhurima Mukhopadhyay, Nandini Ghosh, Ruchira…
Srimati Basu is a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. She is the…