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…
The Illegitimate Child of the Motherland – Shahin Afrin
“Where are you from?” “My Abba’s village is from Jonia in Barpeta district.” “Oh! My village is Goroimari (near Jonia);…
Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India by Oishik Sircar (2024): A Review by Javaria Farooqui
Ways of Remembering: Law, Cinema and Collective Memory in the New India by Oishik Sircar (published by Cambridge University Press)…
Horses, Caste, and Grooms in Northern India – Vaishali Khandekar
No Horse for Dalit Grooms A new pattern of violence has emerged where Dalit men have been attacked for riding…
The Gravity of Hope by Sreeparna Chattopadhyay (2023): A Review by Shabeeh Rahat
Sreeparna Chattopadhyay’s The Gravity of Hope (published by Crossed Arrows in 2023)is an ethnographic account of domestic abuse and domestic…
Slum Acts (After the Postcolonial) by Veena Das (2022): A Review by Chakraverti Mahajan
In her quest to understand the relationship between extreme violence and how it seeps into everyday life, Veena Das has…
Intimacy and Injury: In the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa edited by Nicky Falkof, Shilpa Phadke and Srila Roy (2022): A Review by Sabeeha Shaheen
Intimacy and Injury: In the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa edited by Nicky Falkof, Shilpa Phadke and Srila Roy…
Mockery as Power: Aesthetics of Caste Discrimination in India – Ankur Kumar
The act of mocking someone or something is to laugh at someone in an unkind way. It is an act…
A Book Discussion on Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa
A Book Discussion on Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa Edited by Nicky…
Hindu Nationalism, Mechanical Reproduction and Symbolic Violence: Aggression as Simulation – Arman Hasan
Introduction In 2023, the prevalence of Hindutva in the virtual space and its link with social media has been the…