Author: Tamanna
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Stirring the Pot of Women’s Subordination: Women, food and patriarchy
‘Maa ke haath ka khana’ (food cooked by mother) is a statement of utmost sentimental value in Indian culture and a source of exhibiting love and affection. This emotional connection between mother and food can be argued to have a patriarchal aspect. Similarly, one can analyze the same about the tradition of ‘Pehli rasoi’ (first…
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Book Review: Gendering Caste: through a feminist lens
The core of the caste system lies in the power dynamics between castes and prominently, between genders. Exploring the gender dynamics within the caste hierarchies has been a major topic among the feminist scholars from the past two decades. It has become an important issue to be addressed in social disciplinary studies. Also, understanding relations…
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Book Review: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Process of Capitalist Production
Karl Marx (1818-83) was a German philosopher whose work had contributed to various fields such as economics, politics, sociology and history. Affected by the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution, his main focus was on ‘Class Conflict,’ especially between bourgeois and proletarians in capitalistic societies. The main aim of his work was to denote how capitalism…
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Book (Essay): The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin was a german frankfurt school marxist who wrote The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction in 1936 after he fled Germany in 1932, when Hitler took power. Benjamin wrote this work when Fascism and Nazism were on rise and the world was moving forward in the strong influence of mass production…
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Haldane Fall by Charles Kern – Book Review
Humanity has always entailed larger-than-life stories, people rising from mere existence to extraordinary destiny in pursuit of something greater than their desires. Such is the tale of Kertis Haldane, the fated sovereign who lost his loved ones to the cruel play of power, politics, and greed. With enemies eyeing for the destruction of his realm…