2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (237+ words) Pakhala bhata exemplifies this transformation. Its cooling properties and low-energy preparation render it increasingly relevant in the context of rising temperatures. At the same time, intensifying heat renders fermentation processes more unpredictable and, at times, unsafe, introducing new forms of…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago  (521+ words) Introduction: Domestic Workers at the Margins of Labour Law The Unmaking of Domestic Workers: Exclusion, Criminalisation, and Symbolic Violence " The Gendered Nature of Domestic Work" The Making of Domestic Workers: Collective Organisation and Political Assertion" The domestic worker movement has…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (177+ words) As use of AI is debated from multiple perspectives like employment, appropriation of creative labour, large-scale plagiarism and others, the question of how women specifically are impacted must be added to the list and made a crucial part of the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (588+ words) Doing Sociology Doing Sociology in Public: Pedagogy, Practice, and Disciplinary Futures Maitrayee Chaudhuri is a retired Professor of Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research interests have been on the making of the public discourse in modern…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (293+ words) Shame in the Formation of Productive and Reproductive Lives of Menstruating Women With the rise of digital media, there has been an increase in period-positivity content that shares the experiences of menstruating women and the issue of pain and other…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (885+ words) Doing Sociology Transforming Rights: How Law Shapes Transgender Lives, Identity and Community in India edited by Jayna Kothari (2026): A Review by Ruchi Nanwani The foundation of the recently published Transforming Rights: How Law Shapes Transgender Lives, Identity and Community in…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (127+ words) Doing Sociology Making Sociology Matter: Public Sociology and Digital Media: A Conversation with Michaela Benson Michaela Benson (she/her) is Professor in Public Sociology at Lancaster University, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and Chief Executive of the…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (216+ words) Ritual Displacement and the Loss of Collective Rhythm Eid, in its usual context, is a very collective ritual. The day progresses in a series of collective actions, prayers, greetings, meals, and visits, which evoke a sense of collective unity and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (108+ words) Citation Regimes and the Tacit Sidelining of Interpretive Voices: Giddens, A. (1984). The constitution of society: Outline of the theory of structuration. Polity Press. Latour, B. (1987). Science in action: How to follow scientists and engineers through society. Harvard University Press. Mills, C. W. (2000). The sociological…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (324+ words) On my first visit, I noticed that our ancestral home did not have its own toilet. Since we visited only occasionally, we made do with a shared facility at a relative's home. It was during my second visit that we…...