Academic publishing on cinema in India has seen a boom in the past decade or so but, by and large, it is Bollywood that gets most of the attention. The ‘minority cinemas’ in India—especially films in the regional languages—receive less thought and this is unfortunate—considering that understanding Bollywood gives us little purchase on the cultural significance…
An elegantly produced exhibition catalogue satisfies the voyeuristic desire in those who were not able to see a particular display—but would have loved to have been there! In the ‘Foreword’, Tasneem Zakaria Mehta tells us that the February-March 2010 exhibition of which this book is the catalogue held in the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai…
Environmental journalism in South Asia, especially in India, despite having a plethora of very eminent fathers—and mothers—continues to be somewhat orphaned. Held hostage to a variety of forces, from the inhospitable terrain provided by an increasingly corporatized media to a fickle readership/viewership…
This volume brings together two decades of Rajeev Bhargava’s scholarship, reflection and writing on varied themes that are at once familiar to those who have known Bhargava’s work and also certain other themes that are novel in the sense that Bhargava brings his theoretical insights to bear on hard-headed political questions of the day…
A ccepting a negative verdict from the voters with humility is a sign of a deep-rooted democratic political culture. The 2009 General Election in India once again confirmed its status as an established democracy. Multiple factors are always involved in producing a clear outcome in Indian elections, but these elections…
This fascinating ethnographic analysis of political action through the lens of political theatre breathes and brings new meaning into our conceptualizations of ‘development’. Situated in two districts of West Bengal in Eastern India, the study critically looks at the ways in which one organization, the Jana Sanskriti…