Traditional in the Modern
Outlook, May 31, 2023
The coexistence of the old and the new is an inevitable part of our everyday life
Satyajit Ray’s Devi: Modern Matters and Patriarchal Pacts
Outlook, Apr 23, 2023
Satyajit Ray’s Devi (1960) is much more than a head-on collision between tradition and modernity. Even though there is a constant confrontation of these two opposing forces, our modern man eventually fails to rescue his wife from the clutches of blind faith
What is Wrong with our Universities
Outlook, Apr 2, 2023
Universities are in a fix because of the gap between high aspirations and low quality arising out of poor schooling. Moreover, lack of research converts universities into centres for transmitting existing knowledge without creating new knowledge
Two Films that Explored Effects of Patriarchy on Men
Newsclick, March 9, 2023
Sara Akash and 27 Down examine lack of agency through their male protagonists.
TheViolence of Parents and Family
Outlook, Jan 14, 2023
How not to parent - some lessons from childhood
Learning to Forget
The Telegraph, July 14, 2022
Dipankar Gupta's book leads us to differentiate between ‘learnings from history’ and ‘remembering the past’
Social Science Operates with Multiple Truths
The Hindu, May 17, 2022
Choosing a ‘right’ answer from a set of multiple choices does not do justice to the subject and nuances of social issues
Story in Pictures
The Telegraph, April 25, 2022
Commodities are increasingly being premised on semiotics that are visually curated to trigger the aspirational-impulse
Beauty and the Beast
The Telegraph, February 17, 2022
The beauty industry makes us forget a basic physiological fact: that bodies come in all shapes and sizes
How Real is the Image? How Futile is that Question?
OPEN, February 12, 2022
Mediation is the life-force behind all images
India: A Million Lockdowns, Rock Buttom Healthcare
Newsclick, June 24, 2020
Is the world’s biggest lockdown a fake reassurance? It mindlessly creates boundaries that will not delay the inevitable.
Wear Che Guevara, Johnny Walker and Gandhi on your T-shirts, but it says nothing about you
The Print, October 31, 2020
In ‘Consumerist Encounters’, Sreedeep Bhattacharya explores how our relationships and representations of commodities like T-shirts have evolved in urban India.
Gender Dimensions of Living Alone and Covid-19
Newsclick , June 1, 2020
Let us hope against hope that this pandemic turns out to be an equaliser in matters of domestic work.
Locking Down in Privilege
Asiavillenews, May 26, 2020
Should I feel guilty and stop being a consumer? What can I possibly sacrifice? Can I stop living my life because of a virus and its social impact on the poor? Our lives were vastly different anyway.
Unmasking an Array of Brands
OPEN, May 17, 2020
Consumerist footprint on a preventive shield
Mass movement versus vast stagnancy
Asiavillenews, May 6, 2020
The guilt of the middle class as we witness the mass movement of the migrants across India.
Return of the High-Times
OPEN, May 6, 2020
The long lines of lack of control
Can Covid Change the Way We Date and Mate?
OPEN, April 24, 2020
Cohabitation and carnal status-updates in a pandemic.
Adapting, Adjusting and Evolving with a Virus
NewsClick, April 22, 2020
Reflections on getting back to normal after Covid-19 has changed how we live, work and consume.
Balcony of Big Things
NewsClick, April 15, 2020
The Theatrics of the Light and Sound-Show.
Parasite VS Parasite OR Parasite VS Host?
Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia, April 13, 2020
Latest article at FORSEA on the critique of the film Parasite in the context of the current pandemic virus.
Why Social Distancing is a Distant
DreamNewsClick, March 29, 2020
Neither ‘janata curfew’ nor absolute lockdowns will work. We have to detect and drown the virus with medically-sound measures.
Why JNU is being Disciplined and Punished
NewsClick, Jan 19, 2020
The state is normalising everyday violence through internal surgical strikes on the ideological ‘Other’.
Why Kabir isn’t Cool
NewsClick, July 26, 2019
He is not the Angry Young Man of ‘70s celluloid, who framed his rage against a harsh and ineffective state. Kabir’s superficial rage has no wider meaning except blatant sexism and harsh impositions
Mistaking Media(ted) Democracy for the Real Thing
The Wire, Apr 07, 2019
Other than offering her or him the right to choose an electoral candidate, which other rights are ordinary citizens entitled to? What does this system give them, and what does it extract in return?
The Branding of Indian Education
The Wire, March 13, 2019
In post-liberalisation India, education is quantified, commodified and designed to arouse consumerist desires of elite global schooling
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Campaigns and the Darkness of 'Achhe Din'
The Wire, Jan 26, 2019
The idea behind the government's advertisement campaigns is to meet numbers and targets, not to necessarily bring about actual change
The Futility of Imposing Expiry Dates on Vehicles
OPEN, December, 10, 2018
Why am I being stopped: aam admi encounters an arbitrary rule
Pangong Postmortem: After the Tourists Depart
OPEN, April 2, 2018
Thousands of tourists visit Pangong everyday and the numbers are bound to increase in the coming years
A Harvest of Distress
OPEN, June 26, 2017, Vol 09, Issue 25, 2017, p36-40
Farmers are on the brink and the tragedy of Sangrur tells us why
The Self in the selfie
OPEN,
Feb 2016, Vol 08, Issue 8,
2015, p14-17
Living dangerously inside with the cameras
Can’t Stop Drooling
OPEN, August 18, 2015
How the eroticification of popular media is changing urban desires
Mock,
Mock! Who’s Calling?
OPEN, Vol 7, Issue 29, July 27, 2015, P 42-45
The
ironies of outsourcing and the aspirations of an individual
