Venkat Pulla

Biographic Data

ID3938399
NAMEVenkat Pulla
GIVEN NAMESVenkat
FAMILY NAMEPulla
SIGNATUREPULLA V
AFFILIATIONSCharles Sturt University
ORCID0000-0003-0395-9973
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS30
AUTHOR COUNT44
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Social Group Work as a Method of Social Work: A Review Essay on Theory and Practice in Indian Society

    Open AccessVenkat PullaARTICLESpace and Culture India2026

    Social group work holds a unique position among traditional social work methodologies, complementing casework (engaging with individuals) and community organisation (working with communities) as a strategy for leveraging small-group dynamics to foster personal development, mutual support, and collective empowerment. Since its inception in the west in the late 1800s, the methodology has disseminated broadly, embracing notions of identity, transpar…

  • The Satirical Meme Revolution: The Launching of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) in India

    Open AccessVenkat PullaARTICLESpace and Culture India2026

    This article analyses the emergence and political significance of meme-driven satirical movements, particularly the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), in the context of the post-2026 Indian elections. The study outlines the reach of digital satire and examines its capacity to influence young adults' political engagement, the structural dynamics of meme dissemination, and the implications for democratic participation. It pursues two principal objectives…

  • Co-Building Hope and Harmony: A Harambee Call to Unite a Divided Society

    Open AccessVenkat PullaARTICLESpace and Culture India2026

    In response to the current conflict in the Middle East—marked by mass civilian suffering, displacement, and technologically mediated warfare—my message is to affirm social work’s sole allegiance to humanity and to reject ideological partisanship to which we may be drawn based on our state, allegiance, and nation. I draw on the philosophy of Harambee (“all pull together”). I see strengths-based practice as moral action: centring lived experience, …

  • Reflections on Bharat, Asia and the World: A Mosaic of Perspectives

    Open AccessVenkat PullaARTICLESpace and Culture India2025

    Here is a signed editorial opinion on India’s transformational first quarter of the year 2025. During that timeframe, I spent the entire month of February observing and listening to what some would describe as a chaotic social and political landscape—a moment in which some serious controversies and significant, yet under-publicised, events emerged in India's tapestry. When I returned to Australia, I sent out a Google form to a group of discerning…

  • Understanding Sustainable Development Goals and the Challenges of Northeast India: A Review Essay

    Open AccessVenkat Pulla, Venkat Rao Pulla et al.ARTICLESpace and Culture India2024

    With its rich cultural diversity, Northeast India presents a unique and complex challenge for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While the region has made notable progress in areas such as poverty alleviation, education, and health, the concept of diversity—intended to foster unity—has instead become a source of division. Ethnic groups in Northeast India often define their identity in opposition to perceived rivals, fuelling iden…

  • Buen Vivir: The Good Life Theme for Social Work Practice

    Open AccessVenkat PullaARTICLESpace and Culture India2024References: 2

    World Social Work Day (WSWD), observed on the third Tuesday of March, honours social workers. It is an occasion to reaffirm dedication to well-being programs, universal access and equity, and a fair go for all who receive services from the profession. The concept of harmonious coexistence between communities and nature, as well as the collaboration of social workers and local citizens to create peaceful communities, is critical for a sustainable …

  • Covid-19: An Ontological Human Circus

    Open AccessVenkat PullaARTICLESpace and Culture India2023Cited by: 1References: 2

    Geopolitical and national interests predominate, given that a war between Russia and Ukraine would result in a daily economic decline in both countries. I am convinced that countries, not their people, wage wars. People have other concerns, such as food and a virus that has apparently not yet left these countries. Several plausibility arguments are presented in the first section of the paper, which addresses the persistently debated virus's origi…

  • Movies that Actually Get History: The Case and a Half of Kashmir Files: A Study in Social Blogging

    Open AccessVenkat PullaARTICLESpace and Culture India2022Cited by: 1References: 3

    Producing movies that are loosely based on real-life occurrences can be a challenging endeavour. In order to create a film that is successful, the filmmakers must find a way to strike a delicate balance between telling the story historically accurately and creating compelling drama. Authenticity and accuracy seem to be the two main elements in social history films. I have decided to conduct this exploratory qualitative study using Critical Discou…

  • Future of Healthcare

    Open AccessVenkat PullaARTICLESpace and Culture India2022

    In the current editorial, I delineate the factors that must constitute a recipient rights-based health care system, at least a future health care system. As a reflection on what transpired in the two years of the pandemic, the considerations offered are to assist in rebuilding a realistic allied health care perspective that would not only meet the demands of the future but is able to cope should some other crisis-hit humanity. The conception here…

  • Lessons from the Last 24 months of the Pandemic

    Open AccessMary Angeline Santhosam, Venkat PullaARTICLESpace and Culture India2022References: 1

    Arguments to the effect that times of crisis herald new opportunities for collaborative creativity, innovation, and change are fairly common. Nevertheless, a pandemic such as COVID-19 has caught the world by surprise. As a result, a number of countries have been thrown into confusion and crisis mode due to this Pandemic. This study is based on an extensive analysis of the developmental response to the Pandemic over the past two years. During this…

  • The Pandemic in the Himalayan Country: Nepal

    Open AccessVenkat Pulla, Sadikshya Bhattarai et al.ARTICLESpace and Culture India2022

    The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating economic impact globally and Nepal is no exception. Tourism and migration abroad to work— two of the important sectors that have significantly contributed to the Nepali economy — have suffered tremendously in the face of lockdown and other restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, this paper aims to understand how COVID-19 impacted Nepalis while focusing on Nepal’s tourism and migr…

  • Working with Young Children in a New World Replete with Assumptions

    Open AccessVenkat Pulla, Shiri HergassARTICLESpace and Culture India2022References: 7

    We lived in an assumptive world until COVID-19 told us that all forms of coziness and security seem to have vanished. By focusing on three basic assumptions about worldview, that the universe is compassionate, that the world is important, and that the world is worthy of itself, we explore how to cope with trauma and sophisticated emotional information. We focus on teachers and their relationship with young children as both groups try to develop s…

  • Globalisation: Rethinking Development in the Context of the Pandemic

    Open AccessVenkat Pulla, Kalpana GoelARTICLESpace and Culture India2022References: 3

    The stark reality of human existence with a predictable 90 per cent of most reported cases emerging from these showcases of development, urbanisation, and industrialisation — our cities and towns tell us something that we cannot ignore. The cities took the brunt and revelled as the epicentres of the pandemic and a public health disaster, with the lockdowns remaining prolonged, severe, and even punitive in many cities of the world. We discuss here…

  • World Social Work Day, 15 March 2022

    Open AccessVenkat Pulla, J Sai Sudheer Kumar et al.ARTICLESpace and Culture India2022

    We live in a bizarre world that is constantly changing. While thousands fall into a country demarcated below poverty lines, the world's top ten wealthiest men appeared to have more than doubled their fortunes during the epidemic. 'Davos Man: How the Billionaires Destroyed the World,' a book written by New York Times reporter Peter Goodman, explored how the ultra-rich are responsible for things like climate change, violence, and the collapse of de…

  • Race and Ethnicity in the Pandemic

    Open AccessVenkat Pulla, R Bhattacharyya et al.ARTICLESpace and Culture India2022Cited by: 1References: 5

    This study begins with the historical understanding of race and its modern perspectives as a social construct amid social identity and critical race theories. Next, race and ethnicity are explored within the context of COVID-19, whereby those of non-white backgrounds are seeing different disastrous health outcomes and experiencing heightened levels of racism in the pandemic. Examples and analyses from around the world are then provided, which hav…

  • Urban Housing for the Poor still a Contested Right: Case Reflections from Mumbai

    Open AccessVenkat Pulla, Bophan KhanARTICLESpace and Culture India2022Cited by: 1References: 3

    It appears though surprisingly that on average, in Mumbai, a squatter will be relocated at least twenty times in his lifetime. especially in Mumbai, this means that Each time, the squatter needs to move out with his family and all his belongings. In some cases, this relocation entails slum redevelopment; in others, it involves invoking violence through court orders and evicting residents in the interests of large corporations or large-scale devel…

  • Civil Society Shifts, Challenges and Responses to Covid-19: Ireland, Scotland and Wales

    Open AccessIbrahim Natil, Venkat PullaARTICLESpace and Culture India2022References: 2

    This paper discusses to what degree did civil society organisations (CSOs) felt threatened during COVID-19 in Scotland, Wales and Ireland. The authors explore how civil society organisations handled lockdowns. The authors invited three CSOs from Scotland, Wales and Ireland to describe the variations between cultural and political contexts and the influence of social and environmental dynamics on their work during COVID-19. These three countries h…

  • Ubuntu and Covid-19 in South Africa: Surviving the Pandemic through Community Solidarity

    Open AccessNompumelelo Thabethe, Venkat PullaARTICLESpace and Culture India2022References: 5

    This article investigates the relevance of the African philosophy of ubuntu in the South African context during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data is drawn from the available academic literature and analysed using the elements of ubuntu as a theoretical lens. A systemic review was adopted as a methodological approach for the selection and review of scholarship that fosters unity and solidarity in times of crisis. The discussion delineates the impact of …

  • Managing the Pandemic in the South Asian (Saarc) Countries

    Open AccessVenkat Pulla, Aisha Shoukat et al.ARTICLESpace and Culture India2022References: 2

    This paper explores the coronavirus pandemic response from a South Asian perspective. When their case numbers were still relatively low, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries adopted lockdowns at the same time or before India did. On 24 March 2020, when there were just two confirmed cases, Nepal went into lockdown, and Sri Lanka locked down on 22 March, when there were 78 cases. India locked down the day after Nep…

  • The Not-So-Silent Rise of Nationalism: A Covid-19 Result

    Open AccessVenkat PullaARTICLESpace and Culture India2022References: 3

    Since the discovery and surge of the COVID-19 virus in the early days of 2020, we saw the creepy crawl of accusations and counteraccusations, the divisions between the scientific communities, the lack of exemplary conduct by the political elites, the lack of transparency in the reporting of death statistics, and the increasing lack of confidence and support for people. Amidst all this was a burgeoning of defensive and, on many occasions, offensiv…

  • Vimla Nadkarni: Compassionate and Assertive Doyen of Social Work

    Open AccessVenkat PullaARTICLESpace and Culture India2021

  • Negotiating Terrain in Local Governance

    Open AccessNorvy Paul, Venkat PullaARTICLESpace and Culture India2021

    Part of Series of Book Edited by Carlos Nunes Silva ISBN 978-3-030-60663-3 ebook: 106,99 €; hardcover: 135,19 € Included format: EPUB, PDF https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030606626 Publisher: Springer Nature, Switzerland AG 2020

  • Displacees and Health: Issues and Challenges

    Open AccessVenkat PullaARTICLESpace and Culture India2021

    Displacees, a challenging new word, appears on the horizon in the wake of current movements of people visible in Europe, Center East (Palestine and Turkey), Asia (Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, and within the African nations (Congo, Sudan, Kenya, Somalia etc.). Their issues run amuck from unauthorised infringement of human rights, hardly any financial rights, lack of protected life and asylum and sagas of wading through all refuges catastrophes, man…

  • The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

    Open AccessVenkat Pulla, Charles KalinganireARTICLESpace and Culture India2021References: 2

    This study, written collaboratively with a native Rwandan author, briefly recalls the historical reality from a Rwandan perspective and addresses the consequences of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Furthermore, the way the Western world was a passive spectator to the economic, political and social pillage and Genocide that occurred in the last part of the 20th Century, that was, in 1994, is discussed. How is reconciliation fostered in t…

  • Discrimination, Challenge and Response: People of North East India

    Open AccessVenkat Pulla, Rituparna Bhattacharyya et al.BOOKDiscrimination, Challenge and…2020