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Poetic Trends

Vol. 57, Issue No. 26-27, 25 Jun, 2022
Sreedeep Bhattacharya, Sneha Roy Choudhury

With an overdose of self-pity, coyness, and excessive nature worship, the time is ripe for a renaissance of Bengali poetry.

Outline of a Prolific Academic Endeavour

Vol. 55, Issue No. 13, 28 Mar, 2020
Sreedeep Bhattacharya

Talking Sociology: Dipankar Gupta in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo by Dipankar Gupta and Ramin Jahanbegloo, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp 192, `750.

Unqualified Medical Practitioners

Vol. 54, Issue No. 5, 02 Feb, 2019
Shailaja Chandra, Sreedeep Bhattacharya

Some of the critical facets of medical practice by unqualified medical practitioners in India are explored: their role in treating acute medical conditions, and the responses of poor households eager to recover quickly with minimal spending. The study reveals how a wide range of associated actors are connected to the UMPs, including lawmakers, regulators, health managers, and those who benefit from the UMPs, that is, mainly qualified doctors.

The Afterlife of Things in a Delhi Junkyard

Vol. 53, Issue No. 46, 24 Nov, 2018
Sreedeep Bhattacharya

The trajectory of “things” that are declared obsolete is mapped to argue that a junkyard is not merely a repository of the redundant, but also a liminal space between waste and trash, as well as use and reuse. An exploration of a junkyard in the Mayapuri neighbourhood of Delhi reveals how value is extracted from waste, bypassing the imposed norms of planned obsolescence in order to induce life into the lifeless. A complex set of relationships between the imposed rules of obsolescence and actual practices of a junkyard are observed to argue that “waste” is not merely matter out of place or matter without place, but it is essentially matter on the move.

Lives in Debt

Vol. 52, Issue No. 21, 27 May, 2017
Ajay Dandekar, Sreedeep Bhattacharya

A study in two districts recording high numbers of farmer suicide—Yavatmal in Maharashtra and Sangrur in Punjab—explores the tipping point for this desperate act and finds that in addition to the shame of indebtedness, especially when borrowing from members of the family, several other factors contribute to farmer suicides. These include faulty cropping patterns, rising input costs, aspirational consumption, and the absence of non-farm sources of income.

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