In this thesis, I am trying to look at dancers, practices of dance pedagogy, and performances in the city of Kolkata since 1990 economic reforms. I aim to do this by perceiving dance as a synecdoche of the city. Studying ...
In the past one decade there has been an emergence of many Muslim business-women in the city of Kolkata. This observation drove me to conduct my Ph.D. research on Muslim women entrepreneurs of Kolkata using ethnography as ...
Religious life worlds are generally constructed through ideas of transcendence, abstraction and immateriality, and thus detached from everyday mundane worlds of subsistence and livelihood. My thesis, through a detailed ...
Demographic transition, global population ageing and restructuring of family has inflected questions on the appropriate care arrangement and care management in later-life adulthood. These co-evolving and intersecting trends ...
The present study aims to explore the inclusion of the Children with Special Needs (CWSN) in government run schools of Kolkata. The world has been consistently trying to build an inclusive society, where initiating inclusive ...
Aesthetic experience, built upon a discursive striving for achieving a transcendental state through formal techniques and processes of bodily refinement, is generally conceptualized as detached from the mundane world of ...
The term Baul has been used by various scholars to denote among other things, a syncretic marginal sect, a tradition, a community, a cult, an order of singers, a spirit, and a class of mystics or a religion- positioned ...