TISS Guwahati- Centre for Sociology and Social Anthropology is delighted to present Eroteme Volume 3. Happy Reading!
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- SEPTEMBER 5, 2026 (LATE EDITION)V O L U M E 3
- EROTEME2 Message From The Centre Chair
- EROTEME3 CENTRE REPORT2025-2026
- EROTEMEFaculty Highlights 4
- EROTEME5 From First Steps to Farewells: The SSA Family
- EROTEMEStudent Spotlight Academic Achievements:
- EROTEMECentre Initiatives/Activities FRIDAY DISCUSSIONS
- EROTEME8 Field Visits and Reports
- EROTEMEField Visits and Reports FIELD VISIT TO KALAKSHETRA
- EROTEME10 ‘On Sociology, Teaching, and a Changing World’
- EROTEME11 In Conversation with Prof. Sanjay Barbora (contd.)
- EROTEME12 In Conversation with Prof. Sanjay Barbora (contd.)
- EROTEME13 In Conversation with Prof. Sanjay Barbora (contd.)
- EROTEME14 In Conversation with Prof. Sanjay Barbora (contd.)
- EROTEMESTUDENT CORNER 15
- EROTEMEWritten By: Antarlina Bhattacharjee Poetry Collection
- EROTEMEMargins (continued)
- EROTEME18 Photo by Ana Jovanovski on Unsplash
- EROTEME19 ck by the flowers, but weirdly critical of the rest of the wild foliage in their conservative views of a garden. Nevertheless, it was thriving amongst the rows of concrete. Lying on the moist soil with my hands under my head, I was almost content with my garden, almost because I was only wishing, stubbornly like a child my age would, for that one corner to be housed with the summer dream of a mango tree; after all, I shared history with such a tree.
- EROTEME20 devtas and asuras where there were only…things, or no-things. Though there was some sense in locating impurities caused by a bathroom near our kitchen or mandir But my parents acknowledged him immediately by estimating the cost of redoing much of our home. It would resolve our circumstances. And as long as I got to hear prospects of a room to myself, I was happy.
- EROTEME21 The Story of Migration in ‘Dinwa Ginat Mori’
- EROTEME22 Illusion
- EROTEME23 Ra ta ta ta ta ta ta
- MEET THE TEAMEROTEME VOLUME 3 Editorial Team
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EROTEME
- Field Visits and Reports
- FIELD VISIT TO KALAKSHETRA
- At the Srimanta
Sankaradeva
Kalakshetra, students spent a day immersed in the cultural heritage of Assam and the wider Northeast. Conceived as a living repository of the region's art, tradition, and memory, the Kalakshetra brought students into direct contact with the customs, crafts, and performance traditions that give the region its distinctive identity. Moving through its galleries and cultural spaces, students reflected on how culture is preserved, curated, and transmitted across generations
VISITS TO PILLANGKATA
Visits to Pillangkata at the Assam-Meghalaya border gave students a close view of the dynamics of development and everyday rural life. Engaging directly with residents, they examined how broad processes of economic, infrastructural, and social change register in the lives of an ordinary community. Students observed the textures of daily life like crime and education while asking searching questions about development: who benefits from it, how it reshapes local livelihoods, and what tensions arise between progress and continuity.
FIELDWORK: FANCY BAZAR
The bustling commercial hub of Fancy Bazaar became a vibrant field site where students dispersed to pursue distinct lines of sociological inquiry. Each chose a lens like migration, gender, history, or poverty, and through observation and interviews, set about reading the life of the marketplace through it.
Some traced the journeys of migrant traders and workers; others examined how gender shapes labour and public space; still others explored the area's layered history or the visible presence of poverty amid commerce. The exercise revealed how a single, ordinary place can contain a multitude of social stories, each depending on the questions one asks.