Palates of Pleasure: Food, Memories and Culture by Rozena Mart and Sayan Dey (2025): A Review by Rayana Roy
Food narrativises and personifies itself as a cultural artefact and memory of the community. It dispossesses and holds the bodies…
Forgotten Foods: Memories and Recipes from Muslim South Asia edited by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Tarana Husain Khan and Claire Chambers (2023): A Review by Neha Sharma
Forgotten Foods: Memories and Recipes from Muslim South Asia (edited by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Tarana Husain Khan, Claire Chambers and published…
The River Knows Her Name: Kabutari Devi, Caste, And The Unarchived Voices Of Uttarakhand – Ajay Singh Karki
The past few years have been transformative for Uttarakhand’s music scene. On one end the catchy tune “Gulabi Sharara,” (2023)…
A Tryst with Nature: Labour, Self, and Language by Savyasaachi (2023): A Review by Tania Sen
“When there is a loss of the symbolic universe alongside the loss of language, then people’s epistemological and ontological imagination…
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…