Since March 2020, Covid-19 induced lockdown has led to forced human enclosures with highly regulated and restricted spaces or assertive mobility in India. Therefore the ‘social animal’ became ‘caged’ in a space, in related mobility. The television visuals of millions of migrant workers travelling back via National Highways or Indian Railways to their ‘own spaces’ or rural societies are still fresh in our memories. Indian diaspora frantically urging Indian Government for liais

On 24 September 2020, Mr. Sujeet Kumar, the Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from Odisha made a post on his Facebook account with some photographs about his meeting with Prof Hrushikesh Senapathy, the Director of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) which is responsible for making of Textbooks for the school education in India. On his post he writes, ‘Met NCERT Director Prof. Hrushikesh Senapaty; held discussions on wrong portrayal of Kalahandi in

Inequality is a fundamental feature as well as a key problem of the contemporary societies. Every society has certain ways of ordering individuals, classes and groups in a specific structure. The structure of inequalities varies across social and political contexts. Scholars across disciplines have engaged with the question of social stratification, race, gender, caste and class inequalities. Social sciences have been exploring nature and character of structures of inequaliti