Aspirations, Examinations, And Inescapable Identities: Homebound Tells The Story About India’s Betrayed Youth – Jayashree Doley
Sometimes an image can convey what a thousand words can’t. The release of director Neeraj Ghaywan’s latest movie, Homebound (2025),…
Savoring Inequality: Unraveling the Threads of Caste, and Food in India – Sahil Singh
Introduction The relationship between food and caste in India is deeply intertwined, reflecting the nation’s complex social hierarchies and cultural…
The Deras: Culture, Diversity and Politics by Santosh K. Singh (2025): A Review by Neha Sharma
The popular imagery of deras remains mired in controversies helmed by dubious Godmen wearing garish outfits and selling their latest…
Kalighat(S): Between Tirtha and Tourism – Shirsha Chanda
The Kalighat temple complex – one of the 51 Shakti Pithas (sites of pilgrimage devoted to the Divine Feminine) present…
H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars by Kunal Purohit (2023): A Review by Vansh Yadav
“..the use of popular culture by the Hindu right-wing has been barely studied, even less understood. This book hopes to…
The Art of Otherization: Locating the Infrastructure of Religious Fundamentalism in Sri Lanka – Diptesh Banerjee
At the base of any architectural setup of ethnocracy is the politics of domination. Whatever shape an ethnocracy takes, it…
Mishkal Masjid in Kerala and the Legacy of Islamic Architecture: Rethinking the Context – Muhammed Nishad
While we often discuss how architecture shapes our environment, this article explores the reciprocal relationship: how do the environment and…
Food, Gender and Religion among Muslim Immigrants in the US: An Interview with Farha Bano Ternikar
Farha Ternikar is the director of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York. She is…
Becoming a Hindu: An Autoethnographic Reflection – Sunit Singh
I was born in a village in eastern Uttar Pradesh, near the border of Bihar, where most of my family…