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About Lakshita Malik
Lakshita Malik is a doctoral student in the department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work focuses on questions of intimacies, class, gender, and beauty in South Asia.
NBN Episodes hosted by Lakshita:
August 26, 2022
Cultural Labour
Folk performances reflect the life-worlds of a vast section of subaltern communities in India. What is the philosophy that drives these performances, …
August 10, 2022
Why We Can't Have Nice Things
In 2016, social media users in Thailand called out the Paris-based luxury fashion house Balenciaga for copying the popular Thai “rainbow bag,” using B…
July 6, 2022
The Opportunity Trap
The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program (NYU Press, 2022) is the first book to loo…
May 24, 2021
Nobody's People
What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social hope? Taking us into a "caste of thieves" in northern India, Anastas…
January 26, 2021
The Cow in the Elevator
In The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder (Duke UP, 2018), Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and priest…
December 30, 2020
Muscular India
The gyms of urban ‘new India’ are intriguing spaces. While they cater largely to well-off clients, these shiny, modern institutions are also vehicles …
December 4, 2020
Beauty Diplomacy
Even as beauty pageants have been critiqued as misogynistic and dated cultural vestiges of the past in the US and elsewhere, the pageant industry is g…
September 21, 2020
Indian Sex Life
During the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectuals—philologists, administrators, doctors, ethno…
September 3, 2020
Insurgent Aesthetics
In Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War (Duke University Press), Ronak K. Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of …
August 20, 2020
Work! A Queer History of Modeling
From the haute couture runways of Paris and New York and editorial photo shoots for glossy fashion magazines to reality television, models have been a…
August 3, 2020
The Globally Familiar
In his book The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip-Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi (Duke University Press, 2020), Gabriel Dattatreyan departs f…
July 30, 2020
Fashioning Diaspora
Vanita Reddy, in her book Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity and South Asian American Culture (Temple University Press, 2016), locates diasporic …
July 17, 2020
Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt
L.L. Wynn’s book Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability (University of Texas Press) is an interrogation of ur…