— Sritama Chatterjee I write this with a lot of rage and anger. I knew that the verdict was coming. I knew that the people who can get pregnant will not have autonomy over their own bodies and will be overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States of…

— Mayank and Ishita From the Managing Editor’s Desk (Sayantani Saraswati): This is the first blog from the special interest group (SIG) Digital Economy. This SIG has been very close to my heart as the authors (who as also the coordinators of this SIG) and a few of us have…

— Praveen Sinha “How can I bridge the digital virtual layer and the physical reality through the means of text ?” This question led to the ‘Leaning Haiku’ project during the call for Co(de)-Po(etry)-Jam , 2020 by dra.ft. Since 2019, I have been exploring Augmented/Extended Reality (AR/ XR) technology to…

— Ayushi Khemka It should be a truth universally acknowledged that we all have mental health and as a result, we all can have some or the other issue with mental health at some point in our lives, just like our physical health (though binaries be damned). But is it…

For the month of July, the Special Interest Group Coordinators of DHARTI reflect on their experiences of editing the DHARTI digital publication for the first cycle. They share their aspiration, thoughts and suggest ways to move forward. Stay tuned till the end for an announcement and Call for Submissions. Sritama …

Milli Consortium celebrated the International Archives Week (IAW) between June 7 to 13, 2021, involving panel discussions, showcases, and workshops. The weeklong event presented over 25 sessions, involving more than 50 speakers of national and international repute. The June 12 panel, titled ‘Learn’, invited pedagogues, independent researchers, students, and professionals/…

“I think the first time I really recognized the potency of communal discrimination in schools was while I was teaching in a private school in Delhi in 2017. A student(upper caste) had come crying to me saying that his best friend(a Muslim) had not only touched his tiffin with his…

During my PhD tenure in the Digital Humanities Studies Research Group at Indian Institute of Technology Indore in 2015, I looked for text mining on Indian English literature, but couldn’t find one. Even the DH scholars I met from different parts of India during various occasions expressed that their dearth…

From the Managing Editor’s Desk: As we publish this article in the May of 2021, India has seen a massive second wave of COVID cases. From the constant calls on social media for oxygen cylinders and beds to media coverage of people dying because of no oxygen, it is difficult…