Hawa-laat: Polluted Air in Delhi, India
In 2015, I was back in India’s capital city, Delhi after two years of fieldwork in villages in rural parts of the country. On my return, the city…
In 2015, I was back in India’s capital city, Delhi after two years of fieldwork in villages in rural parts of the country. On my return, the city…
Ajoy Kumar Ghosh and Ho Chi Minh are the smoking communists, with Congress Socialist, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, wistfully concerned for their health. 🙂 Ho Chi Minh visited Calcutta,…
IMG-20250713-WA0000Download Many thanks to Amitava Ganguly, Abhijit Roy and translator Shuddhayan Chatterjee.
Introduction In the Ancient texts of the Vedas and Upanishads, Hindu cosmological thought advocates the theory of Naad-Brahman, translated as the Sound of Brahman. It posits that the…
Comparative adversaria of Gandhi and Marx self clarification through thinking in diaries and lettersDownload
In this interview with LSE Review of Books Managing Editor Anna D’Alton, Danny Dorling discusses his new book, The Next Crisis: What We Think About the Future which…
Hemangini Gupta‘s Experimental Times explores the gendered dynamics of startup capitalism in Bangalore, offering a rich ethnographic study of labour, urban space, and entrepreneurship. Tanushree…
John Hutnyk Tomar naam amar naam Vietnam Vietnam Folk styles and solidarity in the Bengali new wave cinemaDownload
I recently had reason to request a debunking text from someone and it came today. In return I sent my pennyworth about a long interest in rumour after…
THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF INDIAN INDIE CINEMA Edited by Jayjit Sarkar and Anik Sarkar Just got this to read and it looks totally superb. Here is the cover…
https://www.dukeupress.edu/hailing-the-state Ilana Gershon: Why did you decide to call your book, Hailing the State? What becomes available for analysis when you understand protest as am…
Calcutta Research Group Talk JH and questions for the Making and Unmaking of Cities series of CRG, done March 29 2025 (but the intro promised Samata Biswas but…
History ain’t what it was. Here is the great historian of India, Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, with an amazing caption for an illustration of a water buffalo: “Water-buffalo (p.…
Each day weaves its own tale, and no two days unfold alike in the Mandal Valley. The Mandal Valley is like any central Himalayan valley, rich and teeming…
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Shenila Khoja-Moolji‘s The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood considers the ways in which Muslim boys face gendered and racialised discrimination in the US and India, including in school settings….
This was done as a sampler almost a year back – the longer version gets more into the Civil Rights Movement as well as the work of Theodor…
The Sundarbans: Where anthropology meets history in recounting the riverine delta – Sundarbans: Nơi nhân học gặp lịch sử trong việc kể lại vùng đồng bằng ven sông…
… is a first edition, from 1970, of what became the amalgamation of several chapters of “Be Here Now” by Baba Ram Dass aka Richard Alpert. I get…
From Marx’s London Notebook no b63 Heft LXIV – the last four pages on Francois Bernier on India. As Engels several times says, the handwriting is impossible. ARCH00860.B_63…
Remembering serving on this film festival doco jury. A great experience: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/docu-on-kol-filmmakers-karbala-journey-wins-award/articleshow/87875803.cms …
In this excerpt from A Woman’s Job: Making Middle Lives in New India, Asiya Islam examines the lives of educated young women working in precarious jobs in Delhi’s service sector. The…
CITU – 1988 West Bengal
I. Introduction In 2010 India found itself mired in a medical crisis of diplomatic proportions. The crisis was precipitated by a paper (Kumaraswamy et al 2010) published in…