TheDaak review

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 Jahan