Shobha Elizabeth John
Shobha Elizabeth John is a Ph.D. Scholar at the Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, India. She completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English Language and Literature. Her current research
interests include Memory Studies, Technology Studies, Popular/Digital Culture, and Medical Humanities. Shobha’s work focuses on the topics of cities, isolation, and exclusion in contemporary Indian cultural texts.
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Introduction In the summer of 2020 in a rural village in Telangana, India, a small but angry crowd donning cloth masks gathered outside the community isolation centre set up for quarantining COVID-19 patients (Dalit Human Rights Network, 2020; Ganeshan, 2021). The issue at hand? Patients from the Dalit communities of the village were not allowed […]
