In the Malayalam movie ‘Rani Padmini’, Padmini, who has always defined herself as someone with ‘adakam and othukam’ (modesty ...

It was during the usual evening bike rides along the road adjacent to the Arabian Sea, shortly after I had relocated to the ...

The Story of a Family, Caste, Conversions and Modern India (published by Penguin, 2024) has considerable sociological ...

In most South Asian households, the person who knows the most about food has never written any of it down. She knows that the mustard oil must smoke before the fish goes in. She knows, without ...

While we often discuss how architecture shapes our environment, this article explores the reciprocal relationship: how do the environment and local context shape architecture and its aesthetics?

I started reading this book with my own (mis)understanding of the “rural” and with the whole bag of myths and fabricated non-information around the same as being someone who has been born and brought ...

Sanjay Barbora’s book Homelands Insecurities: Autonomy, Conflict, and Migration in Assam (published by Oxford University Press in 2022), is an in-depth sociological analysis of political and social ...

Erving Goffman (1922–1982) was a major Canadian-American sociologist who played a significant role in the development of modern American sociology. When the structural-functionalist theory was ...

Women are a quintessential part of the horror movie trope. From being the infamous ‘damsel in distress’ to ‘scream queens’ to rising into the ‘final girls’. Female characters have gone through ...

Tannistha Samanta is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, FLAME University, Pune, India. Her research focuses on the nexus of health and ageing in India, examining questions ...