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Blackmagic? An unexplained experience By Sneha Utthasini (Sem 1, 2023) How many lights are spread around during this happy time of Durga Puja? Perhaps Millions, and we are yet to step into the upcoming Diwali the festival of lights! but behind this light there is a terrible darkness. Just as we cannot imagine where the ‘space’ ends, we cannot imagine exactly where, if at all there is, any end of this darkness is. Today it has become quite rare to see people who still believe in ghosts, ghouls or witches. How can an educated person believe these things in today’s modern world. One can always hear in their voice of disbelief! These are nothing but misconceptions developed in the minds of ‘pre-modern’ people. But if you believe that God exists, why can’t you think that Satan co-exists with God? Just as we worship God, some people worship Satan, and their means of worship is “Black magic”. Now the question may come to everyone’s mind, “Black magic? what is it? do these things happen at...

Fatherhood and handling of a girl child: A small autoethnographic account   by Ankita Majumder W hy my every step has to be approved by you? Why my word has to have your permission first? Why my every plan has to be first agreed upon by you? Why my every decision has be to edited by you? Why is it that I have to listen to your every command without voicing my thoughts into it? Why my action has to be viewed by you? Why the string of my life isn’t in my hands but in yours? Why father? Why? I know what you think, you think of me as a girl and an immature girl. Just because I’m a girl, I can’t go alone? Just because I’m a girl, I can’t talk to people? Just because I’m a girl, I can’t walk on road? Just because I’m a girl, I can’t handle myself? Why can’t you trust me? Maybe its because of this I have become an overthinker. Whenever I talk to people I am compelled to think a lot.   Just because in the past and still now, I’ve to rethink about my words...

  The dialectics of field and archive Abhijit Guha International scenario Bernard Cohn in his seminal essays published first in 1962 and then in the 1980s developed ideas about the relationship between the ‘field’ of the anthropologist and the ‘archive’ of the historian. (Cohn, 1987a). Cohn wrote in one of his important paper in the collection An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays :   The diagnostic work place of the historians and anthropologists, the field and the archive, contrast with respect to the differing modes of comprehension each represents…. The past exists not only in records of the past, but survives in buildings, objects and landscapes of the present day, the observation of which assist the historian in constructing the context. The anthropological historian therefore should have the working experience of both the field and the archive. (Cohn, 1987b).   Cohn viewed archives as ‘cultural artifacts’, which were created by none ...

Certificate and Award Ceremony of the Photostory competition and VAC (11.10.2023) Department of Anthropology along with Political Science and IQAC of the college organised a Value Added Course on Indian Constitution and Human Rights in 2022-2023. The certificate of successful completion was handed over to the participants on 11.10.202. The programme was inaugurated with a song by the Sneha Utthasini, first semester 2023 of the department.  IQAC co-ordinator, Dr. Mala Neogy said wonderful inspiring words Followed by a short but inspiring speech by Officer-in-Charge, Dr. Tista Dasgupta Followed by photostory award giving and VAC certificate giving ceremony.  The Photostory competition was held in September 2022

 Inauguration of E-corner of the Department (11.10.2023) The e-library: The e-corner of the department is an outcome of our continuous efforts which we started in 2010. The e-corner contains the e-library containing text and reference materials as well as class handouts and multi-media files. The following QR is the entry gateway for the e-library. E-magazine of the department: The following QR is the gateway to the e-magazine The e-corner: The e-corner was inaugurated by the Officer-in-Charge, Dr. Tista Dasgupta and NAAC co-ordinator Dr. Sreejith K., IQAC co-ordinator Dr. Mala Neogi and other faculties and students have graced the occassion. Students and faculties in front of the e-corner.