The ‘Dalit Idea Of India’ or The ‘Idea Of A Dalit India?’ – Nation, People And Power Politics – Manas Patra
Introduction “What is the idea of India”? I posed this question to some of my colleagues and friends at IIT…
Bharat Minar – The Tower of a Forgotten India (2019) – Nadja-Christina Schneider
Uday Berry’s nearly eleven-minute animated short film Bharat Minar. The Tower of a Forgotten India (2019) won the Best Fiction…
Hindu Nationalism, Mechanical Reproduction and Symbolic Violence: Aggression as Simulation – Arman Hasan
Introduction In 2023, the prevalence of Hindutva in the virtual space and its link with social media has been the…
Besharam Rang Kahan Dekha: Love, Family, Watan, Sociology – Rukmini Sen
Link to the editorial note and the panel discussion can be found here. Teaching the Social through Popular What does it…
Pathaan, Meri Jaan…Memoirs, Analyses and Reflections
In this series, we are trying to examine our personal and professional engagement with the popular, particularly the Hindi film.…
Democracy, Populism and Development: A Conversation with Patrick Heller
Patrick Heller is the Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology and International Studies in Brown University.…
Nationalism and The Minority Conundrum: An Interview with Tanweer Fazal
The Doing Sociology team spoke to Prof. Tanweer Fazal who teaches Sociology in the University of Hyderabad. We spoke to…
A Phenomenal World: Orientations, Politics, And Self-Preservation – Sujay Mungekar
Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006) is a remarkable book that delves into the mechanics of the world…