The Individual, State and Conflict in Manto’s Toba Tek Singh – Archisha Rai
Toba Tek Singh is a short story written by Saadat Hasan Manto in 1955. The story is set in the…
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)…
Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures Across the Indian Ocean by Sayan Dey (2023): A Review by Devanjan Khuntia
Sayan Dey compels the reader to extend its ‘obvious’ academic understanding of sociological terms such as diaspora, migration, culture and…
Birthdays, Lovers, Godsends and Post Offices – Medhavi Gupta
I am sitting in the library with an unstable internet service and an equally unstable state of mind. I’m glad…
Memory in the Service of the Hindu Nation: The Afterlife of the Partition of India by Pranav Kohli (2023): A Review by Sana Shah
“What all will you remember, from where and till when?”, someone quipped, interrupting that lyrical slogan “everything will be remembered”,…
The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India by Rahul Ranjan (2023): A Review by Chetna Kuanr
Rahul Ranjan’s book The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India (Cambridge University Press, 2023) examines the representation…
A Book Discussion on The Political Life of Memory: Birsa Munda in Contemporary India
Rahul Ranjan holds the Research Council of Norway funded appointment as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. He…
Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration: Leaving and Living edited by Sadan Jha and Pushpendra Kumar Singh (2022): A Review by Shreya U.K.
Edited by Sadan Jha and Pushpendra Kumar Singh and published by Routledge in 2022, , Home, Belonging and Memory in…
Shutki, Shedol and the Sylheti community of Assam – Krittika Bhuiya
Image source: When a Bong Cooks (https://whenabongcooks.com) Food is central to our social identities and forms an indispensable part of…