Return to Tapi and the Megha Cooperative
By Collin McClain, 12/26/2019. Above: Scenes from a wattle and daub house in Tapi district, Gujarat. I'd like to return now to the story of [...]
SEWA: An Overview
By Collin McClain, 12/26/2019. Over the course of 7 weeks in the Summer of 2019 I took over 20,000 photos in service to SEWA. But [...]
Manjulaben – A Memorial
By Collin McClain, 09/06/2019. On a return trip back to Tapi District (post forthcoming), it came to my attention that one of the women I [...]
Megha: An Agricultural Cooperative for Indigenous Women
“We are women, tribal women. And we are farmers. We women are the ones who work these fields. We know that there must also be women farmers in the United States and the rest of the world, and we want them to know that we are here. That is important to us.” -Lataben, Narmadaben, Ratilaben, and Sheelaben
Heidegger and Shankara
By Luke McCusker, 06/18/2019. In his aesthetic writings, Martin Heidegger suggests that art works can make us aware of the nonconceptual, undefined, unmanifest reality out [...]
The Chinese Diaspora Living in Kolkata, India
By Isobel Chiang, 06/05/2019. In a little over one month, I leave for India to conduct field research on the Chinese diaspora living in Kolkata. [...]
Meet Our 2019 Student Fellows
We are excited to announce the recipients of the Starr Foundation Student Fellows grant for 2019. This is the twelfth cohort of students who are [...]
Interpreting Environmentalism and Sustainability in China and India
ICI is proud to post the following book review posted in Economic & Political Weekly about Interpreting Environmentalism and Sustainability in China and India, a book [...]
Being a Woman in the Field
By Feng Chen, 09/11/2018. Being a Woman in the Field Thanks to India China Institute’s summer grant, I was able to conduct my first field [...]