Leela Fernandes
IndiaanthropologistFemale6.0Global Dominance: 0.00%Leela Fernandes is an accomplished ethnographer and academic whose research focuses on labor and cultural practices in South Asia. Her work on the jute mills of Kolkata highlights how festivals like Vishwakarma Puja serve as a site for cultural expression and worker solidarity in industrial settings.
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Leela Fernandes's ethnography of the jute mills treated the building of Vishwakarma pandals as a space of the workers' cultural autonomy.
Vishwakarma Puja: The Day Nobody Touched the Tools | India NewsThe Times of India·India· 2026-09-17
India· 2026-09-17
