Bhoomika Joshi is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at Yale University writing her dissertation "Attachments to Hurt: The Intimate Economy of Mobility and Enterprise". It describes how a gendered politics of hurt is crucial to the risk economy of entrepreneurship and centres on the contradictions of hurt as a social fact. She is interested in researching experiences of contradiction, intimacy and risk in social life at large and in the ambivalence of practices like astrology that sit between science, religion and faith in particular for her future research. She is a bilingual writer and translator and an embroidery artist. Her debut novella is Lachchi: The Newness of Nostalgia, published by Vani Prakashan in 2020.
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What I Didn’t Tell You
What I didn’t tell youWas that three years before I was bornMy mother’s mother wrote a letter To no one in particular Because it was addressed to all the gods s... More
Majoritarian Politics in South Asia
The last decade has been witness to the seemingly meteoric rise and consolidation of a wide range of majoritarian and authoritarian political regimes across Sou... More
Majoritarian Politics in South Asia: Introduction
The last decade has been witness to the seemingly meteoric rise and consolidation of a wide range of majoritarian and authoritarian political regimes across Sou... More
Passengers to Pilgrims: Micro-cartographies of Sacredness in the Indian Himalayas
When Narendra Modi, the current prime minister of India, visited Kedarnath during the 2019 parliamentary elections dressed in a leopard print shawl over a grey ... More