Ankush Pal

Ankush Pal is a sociologist trained at the London School of Economics, researching urban spatiality, caste epistemology and social movements.

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LGBTQ+ community members protest against the 2026 Transgender Amendment Bill in Mumbai, shortly after the bill is passed through India’s Lok Sabha. The bill was then steamrolled through the upper house on 26 March, dismantling constitutional principles of self-identification and pushing the trans community in India into further precarity.

India’s giant step backwards on transgender rights

30 Mar 2026

Bengali messages on a Kolkata road to mark International Mother Language Day in 2025. Shabdakalpa, a comprehensive digital database of Bengali words, will offer unprecedented access to archives of the Bengali language.

The making of Shabdakalpa, a pioneering historical dictionary of Bengali

22 Aug 2025

Members of Jawaharlal Nehru University Student’s Union march against the screening of Sudipto Sen’s film ‘In the name of love - Melancholy of God’s own country’ which discussed ‘love jihad’ (referring to forced conversions due to relationships between Muslim men and Hindu women) in Kerala. Both the central government and the National Commission for Women have admitted that they have no data or proof of such a phenomenon occurring. Photo: IMAGO/Hindustan Times

The persistent risks of love across social norms in India

02 Apr 2024

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