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Love Laws

The Case for Legalising LGBTQ+ Marriages

Legal recognition for marriage equality could strike at gender-unequal assumptions in family law and open possibilities for progressive reforms.
▶23-Jan-2023
Akshat Agarwal

Redefining the Same-Sex Marriage Question

Even as courts begin to consider the lawfulness of restrictions on same-sex marriages, queer groups should engage with the burdens of legal marriages and help build on feminist efforts to turn…
▶27-Sep-2021
Saptarshi Mandal

Love Taboos: Controlling Hindu-Muslim Romances

The myth of ‘love jihad’ is sustained through widely circulated illustrations of ‘lustful’ Muslim men and ‘victimised’ Hindu women. These images recirculate decades-old calumnies and make invisible…
▶07-Jan-2021
Charu Gupta

UP Law on Inter-Faith Marriage

▶06-Jan-2021

Animal Tales

Humans and Wildlife at the Forest's Edge

Questions of human-wildlife coexistence are invariably also questions of development. A spar between villagers and foresters over trapping a leopard outside a sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh some years…
▶13-Feb-2023
Rekha Warrier

Tiger-Charmers of the Sundarbans

The tiger-charmers of the Sundarbans have been seen by forest guards and scientists as unscrupulous. But the islanders argue that tiger-charmers are able to better communicate between human and…
▶09-Mar-2023
Annu Jalais

How India’s First Conservation Success Came to Be

India’s first conservation success - the rhino in Kaziranga - came from sustained measures by Assam’s political class and by accommodating rural rights. In the 1970s, such models gave way to more…
▶20-Mar-2023
Biswajit Sarmah

How to Trap a Cheetah (And Why You Shouldn’t Have)

Cheetahs were highly prized in medieval and colonial India. They were trapped to meet the demand from royalty, a practice that continued well into the 19th century, leading to their ultimate…
▶09-Feb-2023
Raza Kazmi

Macro-economy

India Derailed: A Falling Investment Rate and Deindustrialisation

Falling investment rates and declining manufacturing growth rates have marked the Indian GDP growth reversal since the mid-2010s. These structural defects have not yet been addressed. The current…
▶21-Feb-2023
R Nagaraj

Neoliberalism’s New Poster Child: Revisiting India’s “Growth Story”

Global investors and institutions have been hyping up the prospects for Indian economic growth in the medium term, but there is no evidence within India that the service sector and certainly not the…
▶30-Jan-2023
C.P. Chandrasekhar

Chasing Unicorns: India’s Dreams of a Digital Economy

India now has 100 unicorns They have generated such a level of enthusiasm that the country’s hopes now seem to rest on dreams of a digital economy. But questions must be raised about the nature and…
▶16-May-2022
Kaushik Jayaram

Global Economy: Between the Scylla of a Recession and the Charybdis of Price Inflation

The global economy is in uncertain and dangerous waters. Economies across the world are slowing down due to different reasons and inflation remains high. But there is no sign of widespread "…
▶07-Dec-2022
Partha Ray, Parthapratim Pal

The North East

Toxic Ecologies

The ecological destruction from the Baghjan gas well blowout is part of the story of Assam’s economic development. Resource extraction has been foundational to the logic of politics in Assam but has…
▶06-Aug-2020
Dolly Kikon

The Legal and the Lethal

AFSPA keeps apart ideas of law and justice; a separation that makes the Nagas 'killable', as in Oting. The law incorporates them into the Indian nation-state as rights-deprived subjects —…
▶22-Dec-2021
Jelle J.P. Wouters

The Many Lives of Rani Gaidinliu

The Sangh Parivar's valorisation of Rani Gaidilniu is a rare instance when a tribal leader from the North East is celebrated as a national icon over and above other — often Christian — leaders…
▶06-Apr-2022
Arkotong Longkumer
Book
Review

Sangh's Nation-Building Project in the North East

As the northeast of India grapples with the spread of right-wing propaganda and the politics of Hindutva, 'The Greater India Experiment' offers a rich ethnographic account of the twists and…
▶31-Aug-2022
Richard Kamei
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