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Methods, Moments, and Ethnographic Spaces in Asia
Asia is changing. Socio-political shifts in the world economy, technological advances of monumental scales, movements of people and ideas, alongside ongoing post-colonization projects across the region have created an emerging Asia – one confident and assertive of its place in the contemporary geopolitical sphere. As political and economic powers reassert Asian sovereignty in opposition to perceived Northern dominance, and dramatic and rapid development in the region shift the relationship between the centre and the periphery, new renderings and imaginations of hierarchies of identity and power come to the fore. This changing environment leads to emerging challenges for anthropologists wor...
Pandemic of Perspectives
This volume brings together academics, activists, social work practitioners, poets, and artists from different parts of the world during the Covid-19 pandemic. It sheds light on how the pandemic has exposed the inequities in society and is shaping social institutions, affecting human relationships, and creating new norms with each passing day. It examines how people from diverse societies and fields of work have come to conceptualise and imagine a new world order based on the principles of social and ecological justice, care, and human dignity. It prioritises the realm of imagination, creativity, and affect in understanding social formations and in shaping societies beyond the positivist app...
Inequalities, Youth, Democracy and the Pandemic
This book brings together studies from various locations to examine the growing social problems that have been brought to the fore by the COVID-19 outbreak. Employing both qualitative, theoretical and quantitative methods, it presents the impact of the pandemic in different settings, shedding light on political and cultural realities around the world. With attention to inequalities rooted in race and ethnicity, economic conditions, gender, disability, and age, it considers different forms of marginalization and examines the ongoing disjunctions that increasingly characterize contemporary democracies from a multilevel perspective. The book addresses original analyses and approaches from a glo...
Applied Spirituality and Sustainable Development Policy
Rooted in both secular spirituality and scientific evidence, this book articulates a new model of sustainable development that is not just based on narrow definitions of GDP and economic growth, but that includes and even forefronts the social, environmental, and internal development of human beings.
Wasted
PRAISE FOR WASTED ‘This book enhances our understanding of the historical issues that have plagued India’s sanitation challenge. A must read for those who are interested in the important agenda of a clean environment for all’ NAINA LAL KIDWAI, Chair, India-Sanitation Coalition ‘Despite the clarion call by our Prime Minister, Indian society still lacks clarity on the nature of the desirable solution for sanitation. Wasted is a serious attempt at pointing out possibilities and solutions. Written lucidly and in a narrative style; it provides an inspiring peek of a clean future. A much-needed book for our times’ DR RAJIV KUMAR, Vice Chairman, Niti Aayog ‘Wasted advocates that the han...
THE THAKUR'S WELL & OTHER STORIES
Considerable time has elapsed since these stories were first written, but the universality of Premchand's themes ensures a permanent readership for his work. The Thakur's Well is a searing portrayal of the discrimination and helplessness of the downtrodden, Punishment for Right Conduct explores the very modern dilemma of an upright man faced with corruption, Attraction shows his knowledge of the female psyche, while Kashmiri Apples is a light-hearted expose of the pretensions of the educated middle class.
Anat Kha Sukh Pave
Stories, based on various themes.
Sid Thakur and the Departed Sleuths
Rest in Peace! Are you kidding me? That term must have been coined by the living! Sid Thakur dies days before his happily-ever-after! You would think that would be it, for getting some peace! But no! He is soon sent back to sort his emotional baggage before moving on. He must now, figure out how not to be a discontented ghost, while solving mysteries for his ghostly friends and flat mates! Peace anyone?
