Between Spaces: Navigating Autonomy, Mobility, and Solitude as a Single Woman in India – Devi D
There’s something profoundly intimate and disorienting about moving out of your family home after years of familiarity, first into hostels,…
The Social Action Theatrical – Bhoomi Bohara
Cultural ideas and symbols surely define the urban landscape but they are in turn redefined, remoulded, and transformed as they…
Deciphering Contemporary Silence in Indian Academic Spaces – Rama Devi and Deepshikha Sharma
Introduction In May 2023, a viral video of Kuki-Zo women being paraded naked, and who were subsequently raped by a…
Being Single in the City: Cultural Geographies of Gendered Urban Space in Asia edited by Christiane Brosius, Jeroen de Kloet, Laila Abu-Er-Rub and Melissa Butcher (2024): A Review by Smita Choudhury
In Being Single in the City: Cultural Geographies of Gendered Urban Space in Asia edited by Christiane Brosius, Jeroen de…
Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansion, Hong Kong (2011) by Gordon Mathews: A Review by Mayur Narendra Kudupale
With the industrial revolution, the world began to change. With the changing world, several spaces became ‘business hubs,’ where people…
Own Space, Feminist Friends, and Thesis Writing: Relating to Virginia Woolf’s A Room Of One’s Own – Ritika Srivastava
Reading A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (1929) led me to reflect on my own experiences of completing…
Liminal Privacy: Quest For Public Intimacy – Medhavi Gupta
A few days ago, I was travelling in a car with my family and we passed by a famous park…
Riots and After in Mumbai: Revisiting a City in Conflict in 1992–93 by Meena Menon (2024): A Review by Manisha Sobhrajani
Meena Menon, in her book Riots and After in Mumbai: Revisiting a City in Conflict in 1992–93 (published by Yoda…
An Ethno-Walk: Reliving the Bazaar Through the Author’s Camera and Field Notes – Bhoomi Bohara
‘Being a Delhiite for over four decades, the challenge to me has been to not become insensitive to our surroundings…
The Everyday Lived Reality of a Segregated Urban Space in Delhi: An Ethnographic Account – Kritika Banerjee and Sarah Shaan
Segregated spaces inhabited by Muslims in India have been in the limelight from bearing the brunt of communal riots to…