Politics of Care: Labour, Ethics and Institutions
BOOK REVIEW ISSUE (Volume IV, Issue I)
21 MARCH 2026
CONTENTS
Between Care and Exclusion: Reframing Community in New Urban India by Smriti Priyam
Students Etched in Memory by Perumal Murugan, Translated by Iswarya V by Sumathi Nagesh
Gender, Matriliny and Entrepreneurship – The Khasis of North-East India by Richa Miglani
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit and Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India by Riya Kumar
Calling Family: Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives by Archa Raj T R and Devika Rajesh
Women and Violence in India: Gender, Oppression and the Politics of Neoliberalism by Nikita Gayner
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution by Meena Vinodkumar Prakashchand
States of Exception : Emergency, Populism, and the Fragility of Democracy
SPECIAL ISSUE (Volume III, Issue II)
31 DECEMBER 2025
CONTENTS
COMMENTARY/PERSPECTIVE
Understanding the Disciplinisation of Reproductive Functions and Choices through Aspects of State Control by Oishi Gooptu
Incomplete Democracies: Hyperpolitics in South Asia by Riccardo Campana
The COVID Lockdown and Pandemic: Incapacity as Emergency by Ishan Shahi
Armed Forces (Special) Powers Act, 1958: Situating the Political Question in a Democracy by Sharon Singh
Haunted Modernity: The Spectral Politics of Nabarun Bhattacharya’s Herbert by Ditsa Roy
RESEARCH ESSAY
Emergency Governance and Precarity: Analysing the Impact of State Policy on Migrant Workers during the COVID 19 Pandemic by Moulishree Jha
BOOK REVIEWS
Zones of Exception: A Review of Crack-Up Capitalism by Quinn Slobodian by Harshvardhan Tripathy
Power, Violence, and the Politics of Repair: Revisiting Arendt through Jahanbegloo by Ismail Salahuddin
TheDaak review 