Upcoming Baithak 17 January 2026 , 04 PM IST

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Previous Baithaks:

Baithak Title : The Caste of Smells: Sensing and Resisting in Dalit Literature
Speaker: Dr Shivani Kapoor
Discussant: Deepak
Baithak Title : Not Identity but Reciprocity: Reading Dharma in Jotiba Phule
Speaker : Dr. Anagha Ingole
Discussant: Pratham Gupta
Baithak Title: Imagining a National Headgear : Islamic Revival and Ceylon Moor Identity
Speaker: Dr. Shamara Wettimuny
Discussant: Sehar Abdullah
Baithak Title : Hidden Experts: Workers’ Knowledge and the Future of Inclusive Design
Speaker: Azaghu Meena
Discussant: Dr Varun Wighmal, Sakshi Wadhwa
Baithak Title : Sikh Kirtan and Its Journeys: Theories, Instruments, Technologies
Author and Speaker: Dr. Gurminder Kaur Bhogal
Baithak Title: FARMER POWER: THE 2020-21 MOVEMENT THE STATE AND AGRICULTURAL REFORMS IN INDIA
Book Author: Dr Sudhir Kumar Suthar
Baithak Title: from palaces to parliament: royal women and the politics of representation in india. Speaker: Dr Anushree
Discussant: Sneha Roy
Baithak Title | Outcast Bombay: Urban Transformation and Street-based Sex Work in Bombay/Mumbai
Speaker: Sara Bardhan
Discussant: Swapnil Sreemani
Baithak Title : Surface Tensions: Potholes and the Embodied Politics of Driving in Urban India
Speaker: Dr. Sneha Annavarupu
Discussant: Dr Ishan Shahi, Vedal Wasnik

Baithak Title: Mahaul Kharab Hai: Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra
Speaker: Dr. Mahima Taneja
Discussant: Dr. Jigyasa Sogarwal
Baithak Title : Lolz! Do Memes Have Politics? A Discussion on a Banal Digital Artifact
Speaker: Dr Krishanu B. Neog
Discussant: Chetna Rani
Baithak title: Beyond the Rite of Passage: Attending to Vulnerability in Fieldwork Praxis
Speaker: Dr. Meenakshi N Ambujam
Discussant: Jigeesha Bhargavi
Baithak Title : Cultural Politics of Caste in contemporary India
Speaker : Dr Vishesh Pratap Gurjar
Discussant: Jigeesha Bhargavi
Baithak Title: Interfaith Marriages: Love, Religion, and the State
Speakers: Dr Manisha Chachra and Saumya Maheshwari
Discussant: Khushbu Sharma
Baithak Title : Writing the Prisoned Body: The Carceral State and the Female Body in Jeler Bhitor Jel
Speaker: Shayantani Das
Discussant: Pratham Gupta
Baithak title: Researching the Social in religion: Methods, Ethics and Situated Knowledge
Speaker: Dr Daisy Barman
Discussant: Dr Sanjukta Nath
Baithak title: From Fusion to Fission: The Crisis of Parliamentary Opposition in India
Speaker: Dr Rupak Kumar
Discussant: Dr Jigyasa Sogarwal

बैठक Title : Communication in the Age of Digital Fascism
Speaker: Eugenie R. Huibonhoa
Discussant: Chetna Rani
Baithak Title : Selective Justice: Interpreting Gender Neutrality in the POSH Act through Feminist and Queer Lenses
Speaker: Atreyee Sengupta
Discussant: Sakshi Sharda
Baithak Title: Old Conflicts, New Dynamics: Explaining Shifts in West Asian Politics
Speaker: Dr. Sreshtha Chakraborty
Discussant: Dr Sanjukta Nath
Baithak title:- Banaras: a city in flux
Speaker: Dr Ishan Shahi
Discussants: Jigeesha Bhargavi, Pratham Gupta
Baithak Title: Entangling the Social and Physical: Reflection on the Ontological in the light of ‘Quantum Turn’
Speaker : Dr Varun Wighmal
Discussant: Dr Jigyasa Sogarwal
Baithak title:- Politics of Representation and Resistance in Anti-Caste Cinema
Speaker: Dr Ram Kumar Thakur
Discussant: Sakshi Wadhwa