Riverside Stories: Writings From Assam by Banamallika (2024): A Review by Rahul Bishnoi
Riverside Stories: Writings From Assam is an anthology of poetry, prose, illustrations, and graphic art collected by Banamallika and published…
Adivasi Art and Activism: Curation in a Nationalist Age by Alice Tilche (2022): A Review by Nikhil Kaithwas
Alice Tilche’s Adivasi Art and Activism: Curation in a Nationalist Age (published by University of Washington Press in 2022), explores…
Digital Devotion: No Ifs Or Buts? – Himasweeta Sarma
Introduction In today’s fast-paced world, survival constitutes not just bread and butter but also technology. The Internet’s launch on January…
Theorizing a Bengali Nation: Abul Hashim and the United Bengal Movement, 1937 – 1947 by Sucharita Sen (2024): A Review by Krishnayan Das
The decade leading up to partition and independence in 1947 was a tumultuous era. It witnessed the unseating of a…
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)…
Disability’s Discontents – Vinay Suhalka and Tannistha Samanta
The topic of disability has been recently in debate in legal and policy circles following allegations that a trainee officer…
Turup: A Tapestry of Identity, Power, and Resistance – Jahnvi Dwivedi
The cinematic immersion in Turup (2017) is a testament to the collaborative efforts of Ektara Collective. It is made by…
When Sparrows Became Hawks: The Making of the Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699-1799 by Purnima Dhavan (2011): A Review by Navpreet Kaur
Purnima Dhavan’s book When Sparrows Became Hawks: The Making of the Sikh Warrior Tradition, 1699-1799 (published by Oxford University Press)…
Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras by Radhika Iyengar (2023): A Review by Rana Abhyendra Singh
Radhika Iyengar’s Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras (published by Fourth Estate India) in 2023describes the…
The Oxford Handbook of Caste edited by Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet (2023): A Review by Ankush Pal
The notion of caste is often seen as a remnant of the past, which India’s modernisation and development would push…