Category: Biography

  • Arundhati Roy: Biography, Works and Books Review

    Arundhati Roy is a renowned author who has many published works and has gained many recognitions throughout her career. This essay will be focusing on her life as an author and the many works of hers. I will also seek to examine her contributions to the field of literature and society as a whole. Introduction…

  • Karen Horney: Short Biography and Contributions to Psychology

    Karen Horney was a neo-Freudian psychoanalyst born in Germany in September 1885. Horney was a student of medicine in Germany, graduating with her M.D. degree in 1911 from the University of Berlin. Karen Horney married a lawyer, Oskar Horney, in 1910. After practicing medicine for a couple of years, from 1913 to 1915, she began…

  • Life and Contribution of Ulrich Beck: An ode to ‘The Most Sociologically Famous Academic’

    Ulrich Beck has been one of the most influential and active sociologists of his time. With a career spanning over two decades, Beck brought about a paradigm shift in the conceptualisation of modern social theories with his prominent works such as ‘risk society’, theories of individualisation, cosmopolitanism and his more recent work in ‘zombie categories’,…

  • 10 Famous Journalists in the world: All you need to know

    A journalist, by definition, is a person who writes news stories or a person who stands in front of the camera to disseminate the current affairs of a particular region. The nation is strengthened by challenging power and questioning authority, which is the basic role of the journalists in a democracy. One of the most…

  • Leela Dube: Biography, Works, Contributions and Achievements

    Leela Dube was a pioneering Indian feminist anthropologist who showed how gender is quietly shaped through everyday family life, marriage rules and kinship customs. She explained how patriarchy gets reproduced through practices like patrilineal inheritance, patrilocal residence, dowry, and gendered socialisation, where girls and boys are raised with different expectations. Her work made it clear…

  • 10 GREAT CIVIL SERVANTS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS

    Civil Servants are people employed in the public sector for the government of a country. The services or contributions by the civil servants vary from department to department. But in essence, the functions that they adopt in relation to ministers tend to be the same. They also check upon if everything is working properly, say…

  • Harriet Martineau: Biography, Works and Contributions

    Harriet Martineau: The ‘Mother of Sociology’ and the Forgotten Feminist Sociologist Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), was the first woman sociologist and is also referred to as the “mother of Sociology” by many of the contemporary sociologists who are bringing back her works into prominence. Hence, although she was a staunch political, social and economical writer and…