Why We Need Riskier Playgrounds – Pitamber Kaushik
When we picture a playground, stereotypical images often come to mind: colourful plastic slides, tubes, bridges, nets, and rubberised floors.…
Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak by Madhumita Dutta (2022): A Review by Jagadhatri Singh
Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak by Madhumita Dutta (published by Zubaan in 2022) presents an unfiltered dialogue, among a…
City vs Citizen: How Inclusive or Hostile are Urban Spaces to the Migrant/Urban Poor/ Slum Dweller Populace? – Ashay Raj
City: A Unique Character ‘Progress’, ‘achievement’, ‘mobility’ and ‘opportunity’ are some of the common terms traditionally associated with the idea…
Mobilities, Climates and Infrastructures: An Interview with Malini Sur
Malini Sur is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at Western Sydney University and serves as the President of the Australian…
Gendered College Campuses: A Case Study Of Social Control In Semi-Urban Spaces Of Uttar Pradesh – Pragya Tripathi
The article aims to address the many challenges faced by women on college campuses, especially in a third-tier city and…
Migrants and Machine Politics: How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness by Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil (2023): A Review by Swasti Vardhan Mishra
The book, Migrants and Machine Politics: Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness by Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil(Princeton: Princeton University Press…
Mumbai/Bombay: Majoritarian Neoliberalism, Informality, Resistance and Wellbeing edited by Sujata Patel, D Parthasarathy and George Jose (2022): A Review by Suraj Beri
The unpredictability of its economic transformations, the growth of its real estate markets, the competing jurisdictions of its governing systems,…
Green Education Systems: Towards Ecocentric Pedagogical Paradigms – Sayan Dey
This short account is about my monograph Green Academia: Towards Eco-friendly Education Systems, published by Routledge in 2022.[i] I share…
Politics of Life and Margins – Vijitha Rajan
It hit the headlines recently that the Mumbai Corporation draped many slums in the city with curtains and posters ahead…
An Analysis of Tamasha Using Simmel’s Theory of Metropolis and Mental Life – Ayushi Dutta
George Simmel is widely regarded as a pioneer of Urban Sociology. The Metropolis & Mental Life (1903), despite being published…