Understanding Space and Experience in India Through Gopal Guru – E P Sarfras
‘Space’ is a term that has been variously understood throughout history by physicists, mathematicians, and social scientists. It has been…
Social Spaces and the Public Sphere: A Spatial History of Modernity in Kerala by S. Harikrishnan (2023): A Review by Rituparna Patgiri
S. Harikrishnan’s Social Spaces and the Public Sphere: A Spatial History of Modernity in Kerala, published by Routledge in 2023…
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…
Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth-century Calcutta by Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay (2022): A Review by Sudatta Ghosh
Twentieth-century India, and in this specific context Calcutta, experienced and participated in some of the most crucial political and economic…
From Public School Grounds to Railway Platforms: On the Production of Public Spaces in Indian Small Towns – Vadivel Chinnadurai
As Neil Smith, a revolutionary geographer, along with Setha Low has written in the introduction of their edited work The…
Homeward: Towards A Poetics of Space edited by Soibam Haripriya (2022): A Review By Yana Azaad
Homewards: Towards a Politics of Space is an anthology of short stories, poems, personal essays and art (digital and hand…
Complexities of Speech, Silence and ‘Choice’ in Digital Spaces – Mansi Malhotra
The discourses around speech have attempted to establish its relationality with silence. It has been argued that the existence of…
Redefining University Spaces – Upali Bhattacharya
Universities are meant to be free spaces that catalyse critical and scientific thinking, creating conditions for liberty, equality and fraternity.…
The Self Respect Movement, Tamizh Society and an Alternative Social Space – K. S. Vaishnavi
Having grown up predominantly in the northern parts of the country, I noticed the slightly different way my friends filled…
Visibilising The Sexuality Spectrum Within the Disability Space – Prerna Vats
Since June is the Pride month and July the Disability Pride month, I wanted to look for the presence of…