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January 1, 2024
Hungry Nation
In his first book Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India (Cambridge University Press 2018), historian Benjamin Robert Siegel expl…
September 6, 2019
The Ethics of Staying
The military coup that brought General Pervez Musharraf to power as Pakistan's tenth president resulted in the abolition of a century-old sharecroppin…
July 9, 2019
Islands in Flux
One of the most consistent chroniclers of contemporary issues in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Pankaj Sekhsaria's writings on the environment, wild…
June 14, 2019
Indian Democracy
More than 70 years after its founding, with Narendra Modi's authoritarian Hindu nationalists in government, is the dream of Indian democracy still ali…
March 19, 2019
Cyber Sexy
Parents, teachers, feminists, conservatives, lawyers, the concerned citizen – pornography raises everyone's hackles. Author Richa Kaul Padte approache…
January 9, 2019
Adivasis and the State
Almost a decade in the making, Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India's Bhil Heartland (Cambridge University Press, 2018) draws…
December 7, 2018
Dreamers
49.91% of India’s population was below the age of 24 in the 2011 Census. By 2020 India will become the world’s youngest country with 64% of its popula…
September 20, 2018
Dispossession Without Development
Historically ubiquitous at least since the 15th century and integral to the rise and consolidation of capitalism, land dispossession has re-emerged as…
August 7, 2018
How I Became a Tree
Sumana Roy's first book How I Became a Tree (Aleph, 2017) is impossible to classify. Part-philosophical tract, part-memoir and part-literary criticism…
June 21, 2018
Transnational Reproduction
In Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India (NYU Press, 2016), Daisy Deomampo explores relationships between India…
April 6, 2018
Everyday Sustainability
In her new book, Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling (SUNY Press, 2017), Debarati Sen analyzes the paradoxes and …
March 9, 2018
Owners of the Map
When the army brutally dispersed Red Shirts protestors in Bangkok's busy commercial district in May 2010, motorcycle taxi drivers emerged as a key for…
January 19, 2018
A Moral Technology
We take electricity for granted. But the material grids and wires that bring light to homes and connect places are also objects of moral concern, poli…
December 13, 2017
Encoding Race, Encoding Class
Associate professor of anthropology at the University of Washington Sareeta Amrute has written Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Ber…
November 26, 2017
Ants among Elephants
In her searing book Ants among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017), Sujatha Gidla traces…