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…
Migrants and Militants: Fun and Urban Violence in Pakistan (2004): A Review by Arman Hasan
Oskar Verkaaik’s Migrants and Militants: Fun and Urban Violence in Pakistan (published by Princeton University Press in 2004) is a…
Who is Encroaching? Narratives of Land encroachment in Kantara – Kanchan Biswas and Kumuda Chandra Panigrahi
Kantara: A legend (2022) is an anthropological action thriller film that flags off issues of tribal and forest land encroachment,…
The Peda of Matabari: Religious and Economic Significance – Rituparna Patgiri
As soon as the trip to visit Agartala – Tripura’s capital city was made, I started making enquiries about what…