The essays in this book examine how important themes in Veena Das's work have been critically assimilated in the work of a younger generation. Looking at the relation between the event and the everyday, the essays ask how we might trace the picture of thinking in anthropology through ethnography and through artistic, literary and philosophical practice.

Roma Chatterji is Professor at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She has authored Speaking with Pictures: Folk Art and the Narrative Tradition in India (2012), Writing Identities: Folklore and the Performing Arts of Purulia, West Bengal (2009) and (with Deepak Mehta) Living with Violence: An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life (2007). She is currently working on folk art and new media.