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Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Apr 29, 2023

Edinburgh University Press eBooks, May 19, 2023

My discourse here is about the fictional portrayal of these amazing ancestors, showing what kind ... more My discourse here is about the fictional portrayal of these amazing ancestors, showing what kind of people they were, what made them endure and eventually overcome the hardships they faced, and how they helped to shape us, their descendants. I do not wish to dwell too much more on the hurt, pain, and suffering of our hard-working ancestors, but more on their resilience, inner and outer toughness, their unbounded capacity and willingness to succeed against such intimidating odds.

Science Fiction in India, 2022

Nidan : International Journal for Indian Studies

South Asian History and Culture, 2018

South Asia Research

M.K. Raghavendra, Philosophical Issues in Indian Cinema: Approximate Terms and Concepts (New Delh... more M.K. Raghavendra, Philosophical Issues in Indian Cinema: Approximate Terms and Concepts (New Delhi: Routledge, 2020), 182 pp.

In the present paper, the authors analyze gender stereotypes in the Bollywood film Mardaani. It i... more In the present paper, the authors analyze gender stereotypes in the Bollywood film Mardaani. It is argued that in Mardaani, Rani Mukherjee's character is a representation of the 'rarest of the rare'; hence she cannot be considered to be a role model for the typical Indian woman. While the film claims to show women empowerment; (a casual first watch may show that) however there are some intelligence and competence parameter stereotypes that fall short. The authors examine them through Rudman and Glick's 'theory of backlash' which states that women are discriminated against because they lack typical male virtues of logic, assertiveness, etc. On the other hand, women who display male traits are not considered communal enough. But in this film, in spite of Shivani (Rani Mukherjee's character) displaying male traits, she is discriminated against. The authors also look at how identity is constructed specifically for males and females. Male identity is construct...

Gendered Modernity and Indian Cinema, 2021

Gendered Modernity and Indian Cinema

Journal of Visual Culture, 2020

Frances Guerin’s book is a finely curated labour of love. For a book on visual culture, this is s... more Frances Guerin’s book is a finely curated labour of love. For a book on visual culture, this is saying something since there are already so many books about this field. However, what distinguishes her book from the others is the fact that she is dealing with ‘not looking’ rather than ‘looking’. The book consists of 11 essays that are divided into 4 pertinent sections, covering diverse topics such as painting, a piece of film which was part of an investigation into homoeroticism in Ohio in the 1960s, sculpture and photography. Drawing on her own scholarship about images and the Holocaust, Guerin presents the motivation for this collection of essays by stating that ‘in light of the immense power given to images by destroying them, together with the weaving of images into political governance and everyday life, we need to find new ways of approaching images and icons’, new ways of ‘recasting notions of contemporary iconoclasm as well as expanding its conception, with the goal of furthe...