Edited by Namita Ranganathan

Each chapter explores different dimensions of childhood and adolescence, tracing concepts and theoretical insights historically. ‘Understanding Development and Diversity: Key Concepts and Ideas’ by Ranganathan summarizes the principles of development and key classic cognitive development theories, foregrounding their relevance in the contexts of education and schooling. ‘Childhood or Childhoods?’ by Ravneet Kaur brings out the findings of a twelve-family contemporary study to present the nature of childhoods in different income-group families in the Indian context, highlighting the diverse and ‘non-monolithic Indian childhood’.


Reviewed by: Kinnari Pandya
By Aseem Shrivastava

The modern subject is not just isolated, but curated; nudged toward desire and performance, rather than presence or reflection. The result is a public that appears connected and expressive, but is internally alienated, disoriented, and incapable of deep solidarity. This is the quiet violence of neoliberal modernity: the substitution of relationality with curated experience,


Reviewed by: Soumyajit Bhar
By Asad Rahmani

Navigating the various chapters, one gets a true sense of the wildlife crisis and the need for its management in a developing country. Rahmani is a scientist as well as a policy maker who has to deal with government agencies and explain to the powers that be the need for bringing in certain laws and banning some activities for broader welfare and conservation. But more often than not,


Reviewed by: Sohail Akbar
Edited by Kamlesh Mohan and Saurav Kumar Rai

Arabinda Samanta’s essay ‘Imagining an Epidemic: Literary Representations of Plague in Colonial Bengal’ studies Saratchandra Chattopadhyay’s novel, Srikanta, Rabindranath Tagore’s novel Chaturanga and Premangkur Atarthi’s Mahasthabir Jatak to make his arguments. One thing common in these novels is the deep distrust of the colonial state that they reveal. Second is the fact that the horrors of the plague bring out the worst and the best in people.


Reviewed by: Mohan Rao
By Sunetra Sen Narayan and Shalini Narayanan

The investigation of WhatsApp’s characteristics by the authors reveals its significance in dismantling traditional professional hierarchies of top-down communication flow. The call structures outside the purview of the official work space bring in an element of a casual approach in comparison to official emails. However, in stringent professional sectors like administrative services and the army,


Reviewed by: Twinkle Siwach and Mehak Dua
By Banu Mushtaq. Translated from the original Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi

Two, Heart Lamp represents a high moment in the history of Indian Literatures in English Translation (ILET, a term coined by GN Devy), paving the way for many more translations from Indian literatures. This literary honour has the power to draw more talent to the field of ILET, which is far from being a culturally valued and remunerative line of work. So, with the Booker, what had always remained a cottage industry has now gone global, becoming a corporate enterprise.


Reviewed by: Vanamala Viswanatha