Governing the Crisis: Narratives of COVID-19 in India edited by Rahul Ranjan (2025): A Review by Akanksha Sanil
Governing the Crisis: Narratives of COVID-19 in India (published by Routledge in 2025), edited by Rahul Ranjan, is a collection…
Anger, Frustration and Hopelessness in Us and Franz Kafka’s K: Analyzing A Modern Predicament Through His Writings – Sohom Roy
From Walter Benjamin, with Illumination In the chapter titled ‘Some Reflections on Kafka’ within Walter Benjamin’s book Illuminations, the author…
Kinship in Crisis: Navigating Immigration Amidst a Global Pandemic – Sarah Nandi
Introduction Immigration is one of the most hotly contested electoral issues, but the discourses of migration politics often invisibilize the…
The Epistemic Departure of Art: Thinking towards a Post-Pandemic Future – Sankar Varma
Introduction COVID-19 cases have retreated but the fetters of the virus continue to impact us. It brought about a terrible…
Technology and the Social: A Panel Discussion
Technology is a fast-paced domain. New innovations are piloted every day in a desperate attempt to sell what the masses…
The Internet, the Pandemic and Sociological Conceptualisations of the ‘Community’ – Pratichi Majumdar
Sociology is the study of human relations and human interactions, with the ‘community’ as one of the central units of…
Sociological Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic in India: Redefining the Normal Edited by Gopi Devdutt Tripathy, Anurita Jalan and Mala Kapur Shankardass (2021): A Review by Sriti Ganguly
When the pandemic arrived, suddenly, we were gazing at a world turned upside down. As G.D. Tripathy writes in the…
COVID-19 Precautions in a Marketplace of Lucknow: Some Observations – Apeksha Srivastava
The COVID-19 pandemic turned our lives upside down. Practising face-masking and physical distancing are some precautions to mitigate its spread,…
Tribal Women Street Vendors in Koraput, the COVID-19 Pandemic and Laws – Nupur Pattanaik
Introduction Street vendors are an integral part of urban economies around the world, offering easy access to a wide range…
Media and Health – Suman Mishra
Media are powerful institutions that shape our beliefs about health and diseases. Media (e.g. films, television, books, magazines, newspapers, music,…