Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South by Nivedita Menon (2023): A Review by Ipshita Mitra
“We need to recognise that India is a collection of minorities, not a ‘Hindu majority’ country.”[i] My daily night walk…
Bonalu, Barricades and Majoritarianism: Experiences of Religious Polarisation in Telangana – Somnath Pati
The year was 2016. I had just travelled to the city of Hyderabad, to appear in the EFLU Entrance Examination.…
Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality by Sebanti Chatterjee (2023): A Review by Akash Jash
Sebanti Chatterjee’s captivating book Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality (published by Bloomsbury in 2023) takes readers on…
A Book Discussion on Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality
Sebanti Chatterjee is a cultural anthropologist who is interested in Sound Studies, Gender Studies, and Religious Studies. Occasionally she dabbles…
Periyar: A Study in Political Atheism by Karthick Ram Manoharan (2022): A Review by Gayatri Balu
Karthick Ram Manoharan’s book Periyar: A Study in Political Atheism (published by Orient BlackSwan) in 2022 is a remarkable attempt…
Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia by Neeti Nair (2023): A Review by Iymon Majid
Neeti Nair’s new book Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia (Published by Harvard University Press in 2023) advances…
A Book Discussion on Periyar: A Study in Political Atheism
Karthick Ram Manoharan is a faculty at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He was a Marie Curie…
Piety, Place and Politics: Rethinking the Spatial Imaginations of Jama Masjid – Afeef Ahmed
It was a normal weekday evening in Jama Masjid. There were crowds, both Indian and international, walking around the 16th-century…
Migration and Issues of Gender and Religion: A Conversation with Aparna Rayaprol
Aparna Rayaprol is a Professor and Former Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad. Her areas of interest…
The Memory Police, Question of History and the Political Economy of Religion – Sana Shah
The memory police, a novel by Yoko Ogawa, very recently translated from Japanese by Stephen Snyder to English, weaves the…