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Journal Articles by Sagorika Singha

Research paper thumbnail of Digital expression from the shadow states - The in betweeners in the late capitalist era

South Asian Popular Culture, 2023

This article examines the social media-induced affective notion of fame from the perspective of p... more This article examines the social media-induced affective notion of fame from the perspective of people living in peripheries, such as the region of Northeast India, whom the mainstream media (and by extension, the popular imagination) have always obscured, or somewhat suppressed. When they come across these visibility-inducing social media platforms, does this lead to the creation of new forms of celebrityhood? This article observes three specific people from the region – a filmmaker, a small-time Bollywood actor, and an Instagram dancing sensation. The case studies outline their usage of the affordances of the social media platforms through which they acquire a kind of cultish fame. It examines how they leverage fame to instil the greater North-east region in the popular national imagination. This article claims that social media is not merely a platform for these artists to connect with and maintain their audiences, but also a place to create awareness, to define their identity and reveal the socio-historical fractures that they have inherited. This article extends the notion of micro-celebrity (Senft, ”Keeping It Real on the Web”) to dwell on the relationship between media-managed obscurity and social media-enabled self-promotion to conceptualise the category of in-betweeners.

Research paper thumbnail of Vote for Visibility: Talent Hunts, Networked Infrastructures, and the Emergence of Northeast India’s First Reality TV Star

Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, Jun 1, 2022

This article explores the relationship between the arrival of early mobile communication technolo... more This article explores the relationship between the arrival of early mobile communication technologies and the emergence of reality television (TV) contestants from the Northeast region, particularly Assam. It argues that such networked communication infrastructures enabled marginalised and aspirational publics to mobilise and assert their identities in an evolving mediascape; specifically, how these publics deploy telecommunication and media infrastructures to acquire media visibility. This correlation is examined via the success story of Debojit Saha—the first reality TV star from the Northeast. Significantly, his win was credited to a rigorous, coordinated SMS voting campaign conducted by local student and socio-political unions. Hitherto marginalised regional identities emerged as key players in development of the digital television culture in a neoliberal economy.

Research paper thumbnail of Vote for Visibility: Talent Hunts, Networked Infrastructures, and the Emergence of Northeast India’s First Reality TV Star

BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2022

This article explores the relationship between the arrival of early mobile communication technolo... more This article explores the relationship between the arrival of early mobile communication technologies and the emergence of reality television (TV) contestants from the Northeast region, particularly Assam. It argues that such networked communication infrastructures enabled marginalised and aspirational publics to mobilise and assert their identities in an evolving mediascape; specifically, how these publics deploy telecommunication and media infrastructures to acquire media visibility. This correlation is examined via the success story of Debojit Saha—the first reality TV star from the Northeast. Significantly, his win was credited to a rigorous, coordinated SMS voting campaign conducted by local student and socio-political unions. Hitherto marginalised regional identities emerged as key players in development of the digital television culture in a neoliberal economy.

Research paper thumbnail of Special Issue on Reading Queer in Literature, Film and Culture Part I: Queer Visual Culture The 'Gay' Fictive City: Queer Imaginations in the Cinematic Space Sagorika Singha The 'Gay' Fictive City: Queer Imaginations in the Cinematic Space

If sex is repressed, that is, condemned to prohibition, nonexistence, and silence, then the mere ... more If sex is repressed, that is, condemned to prohibition, nonexistence, and silence, then the mere fact that one is speaking about it has the appearance of a deliberate transgression. A person who holds forth in such language places himself to a certain extent outside the reach of power; he upsets established law; he somehow anticipates the coming freedom. Michel Foucault History of Sexuality I, 5 In the mid-90s India, an 'avant garde', explicit gay film was made by an up and coming 'young turk' of a director. And though the film had a short duration, it had a long life of evolution. 1 This 'deliberate transgression' in the words of Foucault, created an aberration, reflecting the sexual deviation that this short, inspired by poetry and manifesting existential instability, portrayed. In this paper, independent fictional films that followed the just described BOMgAY (Riyad Vinci Wadia, 1996) will be analysed and deconstructed to appraise the aesthetic mechanisms ...

Book Chapters by Sagorika Singha

Research paper thumbnail of Meme Collectives and Preferred Truths in Assam

Social Media and Social Order, Edited by: David Herbert and Stefan Fisher-Høyrem Published by De Gruyter, 2022

This chapter focuses on memes and their rising popularity in the geopolitical region of Assam. ... more This chapter focuses on memes and their rising popularity in the geopolitical region of Assam. It explores that which gives local memes their agency; in short, how diverse social media groups use memes to propagate or build public opinion among a new emerging public of internet users. Of late, social media has become a popular news source globally, and this is also true for Assam. But on social media, the news does not merely spread in a straight forward manner via numerous posts. Paratexts accompany these posts. In this context, paratexts – a term derived from literature – refers to the multitude of extraneous, ephemeral popular cultural by-products that populate our contemporary mediascape (Pesce & Noto, 2016). Memes these days act as a popular form of such paratexts, and they help put a spin on a news story or event through their movement in the digital space. This chapter considers certain instances where memes surface as vehicles propagating discussion around the socio-cultural and political situation in the form of a local situation or an inside joke and what this, in turn, tells us about the manifestation of the social order that exists in the social media space in local territories.

Research paper thumbnail of Viral Rap: Protest Songs on YouTube

ASAP | art, 2024

On 11 December 2019, the Indian Parliament passed the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act, ... more On 11 December 2019, the Indian Parliament passed the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA), which provided eligibility for Indian citizenship to all non-Muslim immigrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who entered the country before 31 December 2014. The CAA was passed while the updating of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was undergoing in Assam, the first state to do so. The objective of the NRC is to document and deport illegal immigrants in the state. It becomes impossible to read CAA without NRC. The NRC rendered over 19 lakh (or 1.9 million) people stateless, more than thousands of whom have been incarcerated in various detention camps in the state. Assam is also the first site where the CAA protests escalated before the bill was tabled in parliament. Between December 2019 and January 2020, several protest songs against the CAA emerged from Assam and were released on various YouTube channels.

Research paper thumbnail of Platform Proficiency: Influencers to Aspiring Creators

ASAP | art, 2024

At present, one of Assam’s most popular influencers and YouTubers is Dimpu Baruah. The twenty-eig... more At present, one of Assam’s most popular influencers and YouTubers is Dimpu Baruah. The twenty-eight-year-old hails from a small town in lower Assam, where he was teaching middle school students before he started his YouTube channels—Dimpu Baruah (with 1.94 million subscribers, as of February 2024) and Dimpu’s Vlog (with 2.97 million subscribers, as of February 2024). Baruah first began making videos six years ago, with his earliest “instructional” video uploaded to YouTube on 10 September 2017. An exploration of these early videos in his self-titled technical channel reveals a series of such instructional videos, which range from him explaining in Assamese how YouTube sends you money to the history of Jio (India’s largest mobile network operator).

Research paper thumbnail of Memes Beyond Borders: A Bangladeshi Meme Icon in India

ASAP | art, 2024

In 2016, Indian media became fascinated with a little-known Bangladeshi actor, musician and artis... more In 2016, Indian media became fascinated with a little-known Bangladeshi actor, musician and artist known as Hero Alom. Small, ferret-like and ordinary, Alom stands out for seemingly all the wrong reasons. However, he became a sensation as a meme icon, which in this day and age is arguably a desirable social currency. Through the figure of Alom, one can consider the dichotomies of “good” and “bad” art and transnational/intertextual media. There is bad art, and then there is bad art as a meme object—communicating transnational and, specifically in Alom’s case, borderland banter. The “undesirable” figure of Hero Alom is no longer limited to just a funny meme, but is a reflection of a shared understanding of what his figure represents.

Research paper thumbnail of Dreaming in the Darkness: On the films of Sion Sono

Indian Auteur, 2010

Writing anything on Sion Sono is difficult because he exists in layers, not fragile and nimble, b... more Writing anything on Sion Sono is difficult because he exists in layers, not fragile and nimble, but rather adhered to the opposite of every maxim. Watching his three films- ‘Love Exposure’, ‘Noriko’s Dinner Table’ and finally ‘Strange Circus’ one after the other, leaving an aftertaste that had been, to be very honest, too difficult to give a name to. Absurd, beautiful, stupefying, banal, erotic, pervert, honest, over-the-top a crazy concoction and an equally unexpected journey all his three films had successfully maintained. Whether you would like to join in again, is entirely your wish.

Research paper thumbnail of In Cold Storage: The state of film preservation and restoration in India

Research paper thumbnail of Winds from the East:

Bollywood either swallows each pocket of actual cinema in the nation or absorbs it within itself.... more Bollywood either swallows each pocket of actual cinema in the nation or absorbs it within itself. Ultimately, as American imperialism spreads across the world, Mumbai imperialism all over the nation. Small industries and their ardent zealots strive
to survive. This issue, it's Assam.

Research paper thumbnail of Resurgence of the Subterranean Celebration The Beat and the New Age

Café Dissensus, 2016

When Allen Ginsberg, a doyenne of the Beat generation and the creator of ‘Howl’, the Beat generat... more When Allen Ginsberg, a doyenne of the Beat generation and the creator of ‘Howl’, the Beat generation’s most influential poem, says that he wanted his writing to reflect his life, it outlines what the Beat generation stood for –anti-conformism, rebelliousness and an unhinged liberalism all of which made them critical of the conventional. A product of the Cold War, bearing the post-war after-effects, it was during the mid-1950s that the Beats truly announced their arrival. On October 7, 1955, at The Six Gallery readings, Ginsberg in the presence of other figures of the Beat generation read ‘Howl’ for the first time. It was later published in 1957 and is regarded as a harbinger of this new era of liberation.

Research paper thumbnail of Revisiting a Disturbing Public Event: The Guwahati Molestation Case, 2012

Research Diaries: Law and Media | Media and the Constitution of the Political, 2023

My research at ICAS:MP (2020-2021) focused on the circulation of violent videos on social media p... more My research at ICAS:MP (2020-2021) focused on the circulation of violent videos on social media platforms in Assam. The Northeast region in India where Assam is located has seen online media referencing crowds and violent spectacles. While the Guwahati incident itself drew a lot of attention, what remained significant was how the infrastructures of new media and specifically news making in the local region were being impacted as a result.

Film Reviews by Sagorika Singha

Research paper thumbnail of Film Review: The Spectacular Now

Journal of American Studies in Turkey, (JAST), 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Film Review: A Most Violent Year (Jast 41)

Journal of American Studies of Turkey, Number 21, 2015

The year 1981 in New York recorded about 1.2 million crimes and it was this crumbling period of t... more The year 1981 in New York recorded about 1.2 million crimes and it was this crumbling period of the city which writer and director, J. C. Chandor, decided on as the setting for his latest drama. The title of the film might appear misguiding since instead of dealing with the substantial aspects of such violence in the shape of gun battles and blood, it rather engages with the visceral aspect of it thus presenting an intricate plot engendered with simmering intensity that pervades throughout the film. The film tells the story of the immigrant and Brooklyn heating-oil dealer, Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) and his wife Anna (Jessica Chastain) who are trying to expand their business in troubled times while being surrounded by obstacles in the form of oil stealers, cunning competitors and the invasive law.

Research paper thumbnail of Film Review: Tingya (Marathi)

Book Review by Sagorika Singha

Research paper thumbnail of Understanding the Asymmetric Nation

Book Review of THE POLITICS OF HINDI CINEMA OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM: BOLLYWOOD AND THE ANGLOPHONE I... more Book Review of THE POLITICS OF HINDI CINEMA OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM: BOLLYWOOD AND THE ANGLOPHONE INDIAN NATION By M.K. Raghavendra
Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2014, pp. 264, Rs. 895.00

Research paper thumbnail of Understanding The Asymmetric Nation

The Book Review, 2015

Book review of The Politics of Hindi Cinema of the New Millennium: Bollywood and the Anglophone I... more Book review of The Politics of Hindi Cinema of the New Millennium: Bollywood and the Anglophone Indian Nation by M. K Raghavendra, Volume XXXIX Number 2, February 2015.

Interviews by Sagorika Singha

Research paper thumbnail of Interview: Direction is sadhna for me and I want to find my own freedom practicing it -  Pushpendra Singh

Dear Cinema, 2014

Pushpendra Singh’s debut feature Lajwanti (The Honour Keeper), based on the story by late Rajasth... more Pushpendra Singh’s debut feature Lajwanti (The Honour Keeper), based on the story by late Rajasthani author Vijaydan Detha, had its world premiere in the Forum section of the Berlin International Film Festival on February 10, 2014. The actor-turned-director talks to DearCinema about the journey of Lajwanti.

Papers by Sagorika Singha

Research paper thumbnail of Digital expression from the shadow states: The <i>in-betweeners</i> in the late-capitalist era

South Asian Popular Culture, Sep 1, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Digital expression from the shadow states - The in betweeners in the late capitalist era

South Asian Popular Culture, 2023

This article examines the social media-induced affective notion of fame from the perspective of p... more This article examines the social media-induced affective notion of fame from the perspective of people living in peripheries, such as the region of Northeast India, whom the mainstream media (and by extension, the popular imagination) have always obscured, or somewhat suppressed. When they come across these visibility-inducing social media platforms, does this lead to the creation of new forms of celebrityhood? This article observes three specific people from the region – a filmmaker, a small-time Bollywood actor, and an Instagram dancing sensation. The case studies outline their usage of the affordances of the social media platforms through which they acquire a kind of cultish fame. It examines how they leverage fame to instil the greater North-east region in the popular national imagination. This article claims that social media is not merely a platform for these artists to connect with and maintain their audiences, but also a place to create awareness, to define their identity and reveal the socio-historical fractures that they have inherited. This article extends the notion of micro-celebrity (Senft, ”Keeping It Real on the Web”) to dwell on the relationship between media-managed obscurity and social media-enabled self-promotion to conceptualise the category of in-betweeners.

Research paper thumbnail of Vote for Visibility: Talent Hunts, Networked Infrastructures, and the Emergence of Northeast India’s First Reality TV Star

Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, Jun 1, 2022

This article explores the relationship between the arrival of early mobile communication technolo... more This article explores the relationship between the arrival of early mobile communication technologies and the emergence of reality television (TV) contestants from the Northeast region, particularly Assam. It argues that such networked communication infrastructures enabled marginalised and aspirational publics to mobilise and assert their identities in an evolving mediascape; specifically, how these publics deploy telecommunication and media infrastructures to acquire media visibility. This correlation is examined via the success story of Debojit Saha—the first reality TV star from the Northeast. Significantly, his win was credited to a rigorous, coordinated SMS voting campaign conducted by local student and socio-political unions. Hitherto marginalised regional identities emerged as key players in development of the digital television culture in a neoliberal economy.

Research paper thumbnail of Vote for Visibility: Talent Hunts, Networked Infrastructures, and the Emergence of Northeast India’s First Reality TV Star

BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2022

This article explores the relationship between the arrival of early mobile communication technolo... more This article explores the relationship between the arrival of early mobile communication technologies and the emergence of reality television (TV) contestants from the Northeast region, particularly Assam. It argues that such networked communication infrastructures enabled marginalised and aspirational publics to mobilise and assert their identities in an evolving mediascape; specifically, how these publics deploy telecommunication and media infrastructures to acquire media visibility. This correlation is examined via the success story of Debojit Saha—the first reality TV star from the Northeast. Significantly, his win was credited to a rigorous, coordinated SMS voting campaign conducted by local student and socio-political unions. Hitherto marginalised regional identities emerged as key players in development of the digital television culture in a neoliberal economy.

Research paper thumbnail of Special Issue on Reading Queer in Literature, Film and Culture Part I: Queer Visual Culture The 'Gay' Fictive City: Queer Imaginations in the Cinematic Space Sagorika Singha The 'Gay' Fictive City: Queer Imaginations in the Cinematic Space

If sex is repressed, that is, condemned to prohibition, nonexistence, and silence, then the mere ... more If sex is repressed, that is, condemned to prohibition, nonexistence, and silence, then the mere fact that one is speaking about it has the appearance of a deliberate transgression. A person who holds forth in such language places himself to a certain extent outside the reach of power; he upsets established law; he somehow anticipates the coming freedom. Michel Foucault History of Sexuality I, 5 In the mid-90s India, an 'avant garde', explicit gay film was made by an up and coming 'young turk' of a director. And though the film had a short duration, it had a long life of evolution. 1 This 'deliberate transgression' in the words of Foucault, created an aberration, reflecting the sexual deviation that this short, inspired by poetry and manifesting existential instability, portrayed. In this paper, independent fictional films that followed the just described BOMgAY (Riyad Vinci Wadia, 1996) will be analysed and deconstructed to appraise the aesthetic mechanisms ...

Research paper thumbnail of Meme Collectives and Preferred Truths in Assam

Social Media and Social Order, Edited by: David Herbert and Stefan Fisher-Høyrem Published by De Gruyter, 2022

This chapter focuses on memes and their rising popularity in the geopolitical region of Assam. ... more This chapter focuses on memes and their rising popularity in the geopolitical region of Assam. It explores that which gives local memes their agency; in short, how diverse social media groups use memes to propagate or build public opinion among a new emerging public of internet users. Of late, social media has become a popular news source globally, and this is also true for Assam. But on social media, the news does not merely spread in a straight forward manner via numerous posts. Paratexts accompany these posts. In this context, paratexts – a term derived from literature – refers to the multitude of extraneous, ephemeral popular cultural by-products that populate our contemporary mediascape (Pesce & Noto, 2016). Memes these days act as a popular form of such paratexts, and they help put a spin on a news story or event through their movement in the digital space. This chapter considers certain instances where memes surface as vehicles propagating discussion around the socio-cultural and political situation in the form of a local situation or an inside joke and what this, in turn, tells us about the manifestation of the social order that exists in the social media space in local territories.

Research paper thumbnail of Viral Rap: Protest Songs on YouTube

ASAP | art, 2024

On 11 December 2019, the Indian Parliament passed the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act, ... more On 11 December 2019, the Indian Parliament passed the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA), which provided eligibility for Indian citizenship to all non-Muslim immigrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who entered the country before 31 December 2014. The CAA was passed while the updating of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was undergoing in Assam, the first state to do so. The objective of the NRC is to document and deport illegal immigrants in the state. It becomes impossible to read CAA without NRC. The NRC rendered over 19 lakh (or 1.9 million) people stateless, more than thousands of whom have been incarcerated in various detention camps in the state. Assam is also the first site where the CAA protests escalated before the bill was tabled in parliament. Between December 2019 and January 2020, several protest songs against the CAA emerged from Assam and were released on various YouTube channels.

Research paper thumbnail of Platform Proficiency: Influencers to Aspiring Creators

ASAP | art, 2024

At present, one of Assam’s most popular influencers and YouTubers is Dimpu Baruah. The twenty-eig... more At present, one of Assam’s most popular influencers and YouTubers is Dimpu Baruah. The twenty-eight-year-old hails from a small town in lower Assam, where he was teaching middle school students before he started his YouTube channels—Dimpu Baruah (with 1.94 million subscribers, as of February 2024) and Dimpu’s Vlog (with 2.97 million subscribers, as of February 2024). Baruah first began making videos six years ago, with his earliest “instructional” video uploaded to YouTube on 10 September 2017. An exploration of these early videos in his self-titled technical channel reveals a series of such instructional videos, which range from him explaining in Assamese how YouTube sends you money to the history of Jio (India’s largest mobile network operator).

Research paper thumbnail of Memes Beyond Borders: A Bangladeshi Meme Icon in India

ASAP | art, 2024

In 2016, Indian media became fascinated with a little-known Bangladeshi actor, musician and artis... more In 2016, Indian media became fascinated with a little-known Bangladeshi actor, musician and artist known as Hero Alom. Small, ferret-like and ordinary, Alom stands out for seemingly all the wrong reasons. However, he became a sensation as a meme icon, which in this day and age is arguably a desirable social currency. Through the figure of Alom, one can consider the dichotomies of “good” and “bad” art and transnational/intertextual media. There is bad art, and then there is bad art as a meme object—communicating transnational and, specifically in Alom’s case, borderland banter. The “undesirable” figure of Hero Alom is no longer limited to just a funny meme, but is a reflection of a shared understanding of what his figure represents.

Research paper thumbnail of Dreaming in the Darkness: On the films of Sion Sono

Indian Auteur, 2010

Writing anything on Sion Sono is difficult because he exists in layers, not fragile and nimble, b... more Writing anything on Sion Sono is difficult because he exists in layers, not fragile and nimble, but rather adhered to the opposite of every maxim. Watching his three films- ‘Love Exposure’, ‘Noriko’s Dinner Table’ and finally ‘Strange Circus’ one after the other, leaving an aftertaste that had been, to be very honest, too difficult to give a name to. Absurd, beautiful, stupefying, banal, erotic, pervert, honest, over-the-top a crazy concoction and an equally unexpected journey all his three films had successfully maintained. Whether you would like to join in again, is entirely your wish.

Research paper thumbnail of In Cold Storage: The state of film preservation and restoration in India

Research paper thumbnail of Winds from the East:

Bollywood either swallows each pocket of actual cinema in the nation or absorbs it within itself.... more Bollywood either swallows each pocket of actual cinema in the nation or absorbs it within itself. Ultimately, as American imperialism spreads across the world, Mumbai imperialism all over the nation. Small industries and their ardent zealots strive
to survive. This issue, it's Assam.

Research paper thumbnail of Resurgence of the Subterranean Celebration The Beat and the New Age

Café Dissensus, 2016

When Allen Ginsberg, a doyenne of the Beat generation and the creator of ‘Howl’, the Beat generat... more When Allen Ginsberg, a doyenne of the Beat generation and the creator of ‘Howl’, the Beat generation’s most influential poem, says that he wanted his writing to reflect his life, it outlines what the Beat generation stood for –anti-conformism, rebelliousness and an unhinged liberalism all of which made them critical of the conventional. A product of the Cold War, bearing the post-war after-effects, it was during the mid-1950s that the Beats truly announced their arrival. On October 7, 1955, at The Six Gallery readings, Ginsberg in the presence of other figures of the Beat generation read ‘Howl’ for the first time. It was later published in 1957 and is regarded as a harbinger of this new era of liberation.

Research paper thumbnail of Revisiting a Disturbing Public Event: The Guwahati Molestation Case, 2012

Research Diaries: Law and Media | Media and the Constitution of the Political, 2023

My research at ICAS:MP (2020-2021) focused on the circulation of violent videos on social media p... more My research at ICAS:MP (2020-2021) focused on the circulation of violent videos on social media platforms in Assam. The Northeast region in India where Assam is located has seen online media referencing crowds and violent spectacles. While the Guwahati incident itself drew a lot of attention, what remained significant was how the infrastructures of new media and specifically news making in the local region were being impacted as a result.

Research paper thumbnail of Film Review: The Spectacular Now

Journal of American Studies in Turkey, (JAST), 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Film Review: A Most Violent Year (Jast 41)

Journal of American Studies of Turkey, Number 21, 2015

The year 1981 in New York recorded about 1.2 million crimes and it was this crumbling period of t... more The year 1981 in New York recorded about 1.2 million crimes and it was this crumbling period of the city which writer and director, J. C. Chandor, decided on as the setting for his latest drama. The title of the film might appear misguiding since instead of dealing with the substantial aspects of such violence in the shape of gun battles and blood, it rather engages with the visceral aspect of it thus presenting an intricate plot engendered with simmering intensity that pervades throughout the film. The film tells the story of the immigrant and Brooklyn heating-oil dealer, Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) and his wife Anna (Jessica Chastain) who are trying to expand their business in troubled times while being surrounded by obstacles in the form of oil stealers, cunning competitors and the invasive law.

Research paper thumbnail of Film Review: Tingya (Marathi)

Research paper thumbnail of Understanding the Asymmetric Nation

Book Review of THE POLITICS OF HINDI CINEMA OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM: BOLLYWOOD AND THE ANGLOPHONE I... more Book Review of THE POLITICS OF HINDI CINEMA OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM: BOLLYWOOD AND THE ANGLOPHONE INDIAN NATION By M.K. Raghavendra
Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2014, pp. 264, Rs. 895.00

Research paper thumbnail of Understanding The Asymmetric Nation

The Book Review, 2015

Book review of The Politics of Hindi Cinema of the New Millennium: Bollywood and the Anglophone I... more Book review of The Politics of Hindi Cinema of the New Millennium: Bollywood and the Anglophone Indian Nation by M. K Raghavendra, Volume XXXIX Number 2, February 2015.

Research paper thumbnail of Interview: Direction is sadhna for me and I want to find my own freedom practicing it -  Pushpendra Singh

Dear Cinema, 2014

Pushpendra Singh’s debut feature Lajwanti (The Honour Keeper), based on the story by late Rajasth... more Pushpendra Singh’s debut feature Lajwanti (The Honour Keeper), based on the story by late Rajasthani author Vijaydan Detha, had its world premiere in the Forum section of the Berlin International Film Festival on February 10, 2014. The actor-turned-director talks to DearCinema about the journey of Lajwanti.