A Chamber of Secrets: How a New Iron Age Site is Rewriting Tamil Nadu’s Deep Past
The Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu have long been known for their breathtaking natural...
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Welcome to the Case Study Bank. This is a growing collection of classic and contemporary case studies, designed to provide relevant examples and ‘fodder material’ for your Mains answers. Each case study is tagged and linked to its relevant syllabus topic.”
A Shield, Not a Prize: Why Jharkhand’s Tribes Are Protesting the Kurmi Demand for ST Status
The designation of “Scheduled Tribe” in India is not merely an identity marker; it...
Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Superarchaics: Why Science Needs ‘Informal’ Names for Our Ancestors
In the world of science, precise naming is everything. We have Homo sapiens, Homo...
A Statistical X-Ray of a Nation in Flux: Deconstructing the 2023 NCRB Report
Every year, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) releases its “Crime in India” report,...
Living in the Last 11 Seconds: Why Our Reality is Alien to 99% of Human History
You wake up in a safe bed, take a hot shower, make an instant...
You Don’t See With Your Eyes: Dale Purves and the Empirical Theory of Perception
We live with an intuitive and powerful conviction: that our eyes act like cameras,...
The Lion Fat and the Satellite Image: An Anthropologist’s Journey into Magical Thinking
In the bustling central market of Bamako, Mali, a man searches for a piece...
How to Argue Like a Hunter-Gatherer: The Ju/’hoansi Art of Consensus
Our modern world is saturated with debate. From parliamentary shouting matches to social media...
Societies of Perpetual Movement: Rewriting the Story of the Hunter-Gatherer
For over a century, the textbook image of a hunter-gatherer society has been a...
The Decisive Mind: Why Your Intention to Remember Trumps Emotion and Sleep
We all share a common understanding of how memory works. We believe that powerful,...