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Dipankar Gupta

Dipankar Gupta is a sociologist. He is the author of, among other titles, Q.E.D.: India Tests Social Theory and Checkpoint Sociology: A Cultural Reading of Policies and Politics

Columns
A Nothingburger

Both Democrats and Republicans are searching for an appetising side dish

06 September 2024
Columns
Love at Second Sight

From Kamala’s coronation to Kennedy’s turnaround

30 August 2024
Columns
Mommy Knows Better

It all boils down to the middle class and the family

23 August 2024
Cover Stories
Independence

A celebration in verse

09 August 2024
Essay
The Praxis of Evil

Waging war and singing peace

19 July 2024
Essay
The Age of Manxiety

The urban shift from patriarchy to masculinity has elevated self-made men but also increased their sense of vulnerability

22 March 2024
Essay
It Wasn’t Just Another Year

A year in verse

15 December 2023
Cover Stories
An Exceptional Tryst

India has reinvented both patriotism and nationalism by infusing them with the republican spirit

11 August 2023
Essay
Why BJP Wins the Poor

It learned from the European experience that status war matters more than class war

20 May 2022
Essay
We Won’t Cry for You 2021

A poem

17 December 2021