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About Garima Jaju

Garima Jaju is a Smuts fellow at the University of Cambridge.

NBN Episodes hosted by Garima:

Anthropology January 22, 2023

The Industrial Ephemeral

Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction

Namita Vijay Dharia

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What transformative effects does a multimillion-dollar industry have on those who work within it? The Industrial Ephemeral: Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction (U California Press, 2022), presents …
Anthropology November 10, 2022

The Second Wave

Reflections on the Pandemic Through Photography, Performance and Public Culture

Rustom Bharucha

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Lessons in resilience in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India. Focusing on the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India between April and December 2021, Rustom …
Anthropology November 4, 2022

Subaltern Frontiers

Agrarian City-Making in Gurgaon

Thomas G. Cowan

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In urban and peri-urban areas across the Global South, politicians, planners and developers are engaged in a voracious scramble to refashion land for global real estate investment and transfer state …
Anthropology July 26, 2022

Being Single in India

Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility

Sarah Lamb

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Today, the majority of the world's population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality.  In Being Single in India …
Anthropology June 23, 2022

At the Limits of Cure

Bharat Jayram Venkat

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Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an  end? In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated that antibiotics were effective …