How can we enable anthropology to understand contemporary socio-economic and political complexity? Here, we imagine how anthropology functions as a method, a mirror, and a corrective in today’s India.

Drawing on Dr. Umakanta Mishra’s recent lecture, we re-examine assumptions about Bali Jatra to open a focused scholarly discussion of its ritual and historical contexts.

Digital technologies are reshaping how societies preserve, interpret, and govern heritage. Join us in examining these shifts and their implications for museums and cultural memory today.

Culture is what gives form to the social — the language of our transactions, the rhythm of our festivals, the logic of our everyday decisions. Seeing culture as infrastructure forces us to confront...

An anthropological reflection on how young minds form their first worlds through culture and storytelling, and why these foundations matter more than ever in navigating a complex, uncertain century.

India is entering a phase where governance is not just administration, but meaning. Policy, pride, and politics are merging to shape a new imagination of what India was, is, and seeks to become.

As the world turns inward and nations fortify borders, Odisha looks outward — across tides, across time. Bali Jatra reminds us that our ancestors crossed oceans not to dominate, but to connect.

How the living continuum of culture in the Indian subcontinent evolved into a discourse of identity, belief, and power.

Where heritage meets humanity, and policy finds its pulse in memory. This is what happens when development speaks like home.