Rumela Chatterjee

Doctoral Researcher in Social Anthropology @shivnadaruniv | Craft, Material Culture, Labour, Smell

[Rumela Chatterjee @RumelaCh]

Kudos to the amazing organiser(s) of the Smellworlds Panel at the @4sWeb. Grateful to have been part of such an incredible session showcasing diverse smell-related research. I look forward to more enlightening events in the future. #4sHonolulu23 #SmellStudies

[ismosis @ccphusrox]

Vasant Vihar, one of the most affluent neighbourhoods of delhi.

[Rumela Chatterjee @RumelaCh]

Happy to share our essay is out in @haujournal. Developed from a workshop at our Dept of Sociology, @ShivNadarUniv on Dr. Andrew McDowell’s book, under Dr. Vasundhara Bhojvaid’s guidance. My section reflects on the text through my research on Kannauj.

https://t.co/O0J0rV50cL

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Happy International Workers’ Day!

To kick it off, here’s a thread of #MayDay posters from around the world.

Let's start in Austria, with this poster from 1891.

[Bilal Ahmad Tantray @bilal_tantrayy]

This winter, @hyderhabib and I roamed the streets of Jamia Nagar in Delhi documenting how the people of ghettoised neighbourhoods navigate scarcity of sunlight. A part of our project was carried by @TheIndiaForum as a photo essay. Link to the essay: https://t.co/ICW6Ss6BVC

[Sociology SNU @SociologySNIoE]

Applications for our fully-funded PhD program is open. Please spread the word. @pc_saidalavi

[Soumyadeep Guha @SGuha03]

Wrote something (less analytical and more journalistic) because folks in India need to pay attention to the debates around reimagining the "economy" happening elsewhere. The role of the state and cooperatives are back again and here we are stuck in 2004.

[Basharat Peer @BasharatPeer]

Without doubt the most insightful, the very best essay on the war on Iran so far. The always brilliant Eskander Sadeghi Boroujerdi in @LRB https://t.co/NKbzhsd8sD

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Bombing Iran in the middle of negotiations, while starving Cuba, while genociding Palestinians, while threatening to invade Greenland… the US and Israel are the single greatest threat to humanity and it’s not even close. We are all forced to live in the nightmare they create.

[Neha @nehavermani]

Spring Series #3: Some more early modern women idling under the starlit sky in a lush garden filled with mango, banana & champa trees, blooming pride of Barbados, four o’clock flowers, nagris, corn poppies, damask roses, and orange-yellow marigolds. This painting has my ♥️ x 100.

[Soumyadeep Guha @SGuha03]

@1eyedpessimist and I interviewed Historian Andrew Sartori about his work which we see as a departure from Subaltern Studies. It gives us a better context of our present predicaments - born out of a shared malaise even though not perceptible outright.

https://t.co/x1hyh58Zlu

[PC Saidalavi @pc_saidalavi]

This is the first event happening in Delhi, organised by the School of Humanities and Social sciences, Shiv Nadar University. All are invited. Please share with those who might be interested.
@ShivNadarUniv @PennPress

[Rumela Chatterjee @RumelaCh]

https://t.co/DHQC859VK0

Co-wrote an article with @SGuha03 on the exhaustion of living in urban India and what gets normalised as everyday life. We try to rethink leisure, and living a life that is not necessarily an outcome of the market.

[Soumyadeep Guha @SGuha03]

An ode to @RumelaCh and my recent and slow reading of Adorno and Raymond Williams. We try to rethink leisure in contemporary urban India.

[Dr Ally Louks @DrAllyLouks]

@quokka0925 I like to think knowing more about smell doesn’t ruin our experiences of it - it just shows that the foul and the fragrant aren’t as oppositional as we might think!

[Bengal's untold tales @Gramergolpo]

She is painting her house 🏡

[Rumela Chatterjee @RumelaCh]

https://t.co/del0LAq6DC

[Dr Ally Louks @DrAllyLouks]

Shops, casinos, hotels, restaurants, bakeries, coffee shops, theme parks, the list goes on and on. We are all being manipulated through smell in basically every retail context, we just aren’t consciously aware of it. It’s extremely effective at increasing expenditure.

[PC Saidalavi @pc_saidalavi]

The Department of Sociology at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR invites applications to its second Graduate Students’ Workshop, to be held in February 2026. There is no registration fee and we will take care of accommodation and food. Please spread the word.

[Craters of Mumbai (Potholes ka Parivar) @CratersOfMumbai]

Absolute masterpiece by Tyler.

[Sociology SNU @SociologySNIoE]

The department of Sociology is inviting applications to its PhD program. Our PhD comes with a generous fellowship. You can scan or check out the link for further details. Please spread the word.

[Soumyadeep Guha @SGuha03]

Wrote something with @1eyedpessimist on the recent controversies around the representation of Indian History in Bollywood. We begin by (re)asking why do WhatsApp histories prevail?

https://t.co/wxhKVRD23o