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Narratives of dysfunction and success stories in e-waste recycling in India
There is a growing consensus that India is going through a waste crisis, and this awareness unfolds parallel to an increasing awareness of the beyond-human time it takes…
Anomalous Waste: Reckoning with Radioactivity in a Metal Scrap Market
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2019 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
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Posiblemente no hayan oído hablar nunca de la localidad de Cherrapunji, se trata de una pequeña localidad de la India en el Estado de Megalaya. Allí pueden encontrarse…
The plight of domestic workers during India’s lockdown
Bhaagya (not her real name) is in her early thirties. She is married, and has two teenage children. She cooks and cleans for several households in Bengaluru, a…
Caring in the times of Corona
PARAS ARORA How does one write about social isolation, mental health issues, and care work-induced fatigue in a local context already scarred with abandonment, loneliness and chronic caregiving?…
Health Technology Assessments: the metrical evangelization of UHC in India by Robert D. Smith
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
Ayurveda, Preconception, Biological Plasticity, and the Re-conception of a Nation by Natasha L. Rooney
Sitting in my home office in Melbourne, I attended the first ever online international conference on Ayurveda and Epigenetics. My PhD project, which began a few months ago,…
India’s lockdown tragedy: bleeding along the fault lines of a nation
As India comes out of a long and harsh lockdown, and Covid-19 cases are rising with worrying speed, it is important to reflect on the Indian government’s response…
Book Review: Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India by Michael Levien
In Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India, Michael Levien examines how the shift from state-directed capitalism to neoliberalism in India from the 1990s has led to…
Entrepreneurship and E-Health: How Promises of Innovation are Transforming India’s Primary Care Sector by Sandra Bärnreuther
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
Remembering Dr Abhay Xaxa, 1983-2020
“So I draw my own picture, and invent my own grammar, I make my own tools to fight my own battle, For me, my people, my world, and…
The Social Meanings of Food in a COVID-19 World
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Rituparna Patgiri, a doctoral student in the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS) at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She is interested…
A Viral Education: Scientific Lessons from India’s WhatsApp University by Banu Subramaniam
We know of allopathy, and homeopathy, but how about cowpathy? The last is a line of consumer goods that feature the healing properties of the sacred “Hindu” cow…
Pandemic Predictions- The World Post-Covid-19 for Indian Females
DEVASHREE JUVEKAR As the entire world is grappling with the novel coronavirus pandemic, many experts and researchers have predicted a number of social and economic changes that the…
Teaching in the Times of Corona: Structural Inequalities and the Limitations of Online Pedagogy in North East India (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Achuth Ajit The COVID-19 pandemic has gravitated a shift in teaching practices across the world. The fear of contagion and the…
#Afterlives: Shaheen Bagh and the Force of Foundation
February 2020. The pedestrian overpass is covered in banners. Crossing its elevated walkway, only flashes of the sky can be glimpsed through the hanging tarp, cloth and card,…
Domesday’s eastern roots.
It seems like that old “goodness gracious me” sketch about the funny uncle that was claiming everything in Britain was ‘Indian’ was, – yup, Indian – accurate after…
Release G.N. Saibaba
Many times mentioned on this blog, it is now more relevant than ever to write and support comrade Sai Baba whose conditions, like so many prisoners, are inhumane.…
The Public-Private Welfare State: constructing a data-driven health coverage in India by Marine Al Dahdah
Promotional materials from the global campaign to achieve Universal Health Coverage by the year 2030. Copyright UHC2030 – reproduced here under ‘fair use’ for academic purposes. “Health for…
Platypus Celebrates AAPI Heritage Month
In celebration and recognition of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, take a look back at some of our favorite past posts from and about the region.…
Of grandparents, memories and the pandemic by Tannistha Samanta
While growing up in a small town in the eastern state of Bengal (India), our summer vacations would be spent in Kolkata at the maternal grandparents (or mamar bari,…
Lockdowns save, lockdowns kill: Valuing life after coronashock by Stefan Ecks
The scale and severity of the coronavirus pandemic is a shock to health systems. It is a shock to economies and governments. It is also a shock to…
Covid-19 in Tamil Nadu: Textile livelihoods under threat
by Geert De Neve **Reprinted by permission from the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme.** On the 24th of March 2020, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a complete national…