Can natural farming be the solution to Indian farmers?
Every year farmers in northern India burn 23 million tonnes of paddy stubble causing severe air pollution that has contributed to 63 Indian cities amongst the 100 most polluted cities […]
Every year farmers in northern India burn 23 million tonnes of paddy stubble causing severe air pollution that has contributed to 63 Indian cities amongst the 100 most polluted cities […]
My book ‘In Search of Home: Citizenship, Law and the Politics of the Poor’ will be launched by the Cambridge University Press on 7th February 2022 (date changed from 10th […]
Cambridge University Press, 2021, South Asia in the Social Sciences Series, edited by Partha Chatterjee Book Description: In Search of Home explores a new yet less explored space of urban […]
At the recent LASSNET conference on ‘Thinking with Evidence: Seeking Certainty, Making Truth’, I was delighted to attend a panel on ‘Encountering Islam and Law in India: Transitions from the […]
In the LASSNET conference held in December 2016, I had the chance to meet wonderful urban anthropologists and attend some phenomenal presentations. The panel on techno-utopias of identification in which […]
Fish has become over a period of time a most sought after food. Fish.. that wonderfully healthy food that we all enjoy full of that powerhouse of omega fatty acids, […]
Its been about 2 months since I began working at the Beedinagudde fish market at Udupi, interviewing fisher women about their lives and their collective organisation. The Beedinagudde market is […]
Ian Mick Cook’s presentation of his work at the Manipal Centre for Philosophy & Humanities on the 4th was an occassion to review current approaches to the analysis of the […]
Women and work – women who work, women’s work, essential work, invisible women, sometimes visible work…. these have occupied my mind for the last few months. In a facebook post […]