Thiyagaraj Gurunathan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6597214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thiyagaraj Gurunathan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thiyagaraj |
| FAMILY NAME | Gurunathan |
| SIGNATURE | GURUNATHAN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4396-6062 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Review of Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence
During the COVID-19 lockdown, a group of writers from an online magazine community, Café Dissensus, came forward to develop on the growing readership virally directed towards a niche genre of outbreak narratives. The first online issue released in 2021 under the editorship of Nishi Pulugurtha was sooner improvised and made available in print format in 2023 as Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence. The collection is dedic…
The Birth of the “Indian” Clinic
This article locates the clinic as a historically contingent space which faced cultural resistance and remained alien to the colonized population in India. It corroborates the socio-political tension in setting up a clinic within the colony and investigates how the Western clinic as a colonial apparatus was resituated as the “Indian clinic” per se. With the historical emergence of a new class of medical practitioners called “daktars” (a Bengali v…
Odouring foodscapes, ordering gender
The article locates the caste-spaces in India through the sensoriality of smell emitted by food in different gastronomical zones and its influence on the socio-political condition of Dalit women. It focuses on the embedded olfactory value of food to inform the contested nature of the Indian caste system and enables an understanding of the gendered aspect of the caste-spaces. By examining caste as spatial, sensorial and corporeal, the article conf…
Spectres of Caste/Contagion
The article critiques the traversal politics of caste and contagion through a critical dissection of what comes as a primarily biomedical excess of the outbreak—the dead body. It elucidates upon the becoming of the dead body into an untouchable where its “right to die with dignity” is deferred. The article reasons this stigmatisation of the deceased as a result of anxiety ensued in the living population facing the outbreak crisis. Through a close…
Odouring foodscapes, ordering gender
The article locates the caste-spaces in India through the sensoriality of smell emitted by food in different gastronomical zones and its influence on the socio-political condition of Dalit women. It focuses on the embedded olfactory value of food to inform the contested nature of the Indian caste system and enables an understanding of the gendered aspect of the caste-spaces. By examining caste as spatial, sensorial and corporeal, the article conf…
Spectres of Caste/Contagion
The article critiques the traversal politics of caste and contagion through a critical dissection of what comes as a primarily biomedical excess of the outbreak—the dead body. It elucidates upon the becoming of the dead body into an untouchable where its “right to die with dignity” is deferred. The article reasons this stigmatisation of the deceased as a result of anxiety ensued in the living population facing the outbreak crisis. Through a close…
Odouring foodscapes, ordering gender
The article locates the caste-spaces in India through the sensoriality of smell emitted by food in different gastronomical zones and its influence on the socio-political condition of Dalit women. It focuses on the embedded olfactory value of food to inform the contested nature of the Indian caste system and enables an understanding of the gendered aspect of the caste-spaces. By examining caste as spatial, sensorial and corporeal, the article conf…
The Birth of the “Indian” Clinic
This article locates the clinic as a historically contingent space which faced cultural resistance and remained alien to the colonized population in India. It corroborates the socio-political tension in setting up a clinic within the colony and investigates how the Western clinic as a colonial apparatus was resituated as the “Indian clinic” per se. With the historical emergence of a new class of medical practitioners called “daktars” (a Bengali v…
A Review of Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence
During the COVID-19 lockdown, a group of writers from an online magazine community, Café Dissensus, came forward to develop on the growing readership virally directed towards a niche genre of outbreak narratives. The first online issue released in 2021 under the editorship of Nishi Pulugurtha was sooner improvised and made available in print format in 2023 as Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence. The collection is dedic…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Caste (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)