In May 2026, the World Meteorological Organisation confirmed what climate scientists had been tracking with growing alarm for months.

On visual overconsumption, AI-generated imagery, the death of inner picturing, and what happens to the dreaming mind when it has been fed another person's imagination for long enough.

A study of how weakening communities reshape the inner life of individuals, turning home, love, and kinship into fragile spaces of refuge from an anthropological lens.

Understanding literature as the first step of democracy involves recognising its capacity to cultivate engagement with plurality.

Culture today exists simultaneously as lived practice and articulated narrative. Belief exists simultaneously as an inherited disposition and a constructed understanding.

As part of Ekamra Anubhav 2.0, participants will have the opportunity to engage with the art of palm leaf etching (Talapatra Chitra) through a hands-on interaction. Know more about the event...

You may have come across our recent announcement introducing Ekamra Anubhav 2.0 . The response to that post has already brought up a few immediate questions—why “2.0”, whether there was an earlier version, and what exactly has changed. The announcement itself was simple. Heritage walks, over the past few years, have become an important way for people to reconnect with historic places, and their growing presence across cities reflects a welcome shift in public engagement with

Which languages receive the conditions to survive as living, future-facing tools and which are pushed into the museum of nostalgia?

Curated by Sibdas Sengupta, the exhibition resists the logic of a conventional retrospective. Instead, it operates as a living archive, a constellation of images, materials, gestures, and memories...

Culture is increasingly framed as knowledge that must be documented, interpreted, and institutionalised within digital, educational, and tourism systems.

When Odisha turns one hundred, there will be many narratives competing for attention. What interests ParibhaAsha is contributing to the conditions under which cultural memory remains accessible!

The framing of literature as the domain of a select few also invites scrutiny. Who benefits from such framing, and who is excluded?

The mirage of democratisation of culture is also lucrative, and needs to be consciously countered. The digital divide is greater than ever with the advent of AI...

Maybe the answer isn’t to reject these paid experiences, but to let them remind us of the rituals we’ve forgotten and the possibility of bringing some of them back, in small, unstructured ways.

Curiosity is older than civilisation. It is not a luxury; it is how humans stay alive. So what happens if we stop asking?

This commentary adopts a qualitative, analytical approach grounded in field observations of major social media platforms such as X, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

A Reflection from the Margins of a Rapidly Changing World...

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.

Writer’s Disclaimer: This reflection applies to every society around the world. We may choose to view it from the perspective of the societies we belong to to see what we might have otherwise ignored.

An invitation to explore how cultures truly evolve through movement, exchange, and transformation and why fluidity, not fixation, reveals the deeper story of civilisation.