Urmilla Deshpande and Thiago Pinto Barbosa’s 2024 book, ‘Iru’, celebrates India’s first female anthropologist. Beyond Karve’s scholarly work, it highlights her writings in Marathi.
Sociologist MN Srinivas didn’t just theorise caste, but investigated it in the field. On his death anniversary, a look at the “approachable” scholar and his ground-up approach to academia.
The notion that some of the world’s brightest stars burn out at the age of 27 is as seductive as it is tragic. Members of the 27 Club include Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse.
Isabel Wilkerson’s book ‘Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents’ is creating a storm everywhere but India. And it finally studies caste as a problem, not a system.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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