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  • Hinglish Workshop, 18-19 August 2014

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    Hinglish Workshop, 18-19 August 2014

    The relationship between Hindi and English has undergone enormous changes in contemporary India in the last ten years or so. After over a century of language nationalism and almost as long a period of intense competition and mutual contempt, in post-liberalisation and post-low caste assertion India the boundaries between English and Hindi have suddenly become more porous… [T]he relation between English and Hindi (and in variable terms between English and other Indian languages) has become less a zero-sum game and more a relationship of parallel expansion.

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    The Many Lives of Indian Cinema Conference – Recordings – Day 03

    Day 01, January 09, 2014 | Day 02, January 10, 2014 | Day 03, January 11, 2014   Detailing Technology A Difficult Geography: Bombay Cinema’s Move to Colour Ranjani Mazumdar, School of Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehu University Recording not available. “No Blue”: On the Colour of Sensation in Tamil Cinema Anand Pandian, Johns Hopkins…

  • The Many Lives of Indian Cinema Conference – Recordings – Day 03

    Recordings from the third day of The Many Lives of Indian Cinema conference organised by The Sarai Programme in January 2014.

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    The Many Lives of Indian Cinema Conference – Recordings – Day 02

    Day 01, January 09, 2014 | Day 02, January 10, 2014 | Day 03, January 11, 2014   Histories: Cities I Early Film-going as Heterotopic Mobility: Urban Journeys, Public Space and Cinema Theatres in Chennai Stephen Putnam Hughes, School of Oriental and African Studies, London Download: OGG and MP3. Cinema in the Colonial City: Early…

  • The Many Lives of Indian Cinema Conference – Recordings – Day 02

    Recordings from the second day of The Many Lives of Indian Cinema conference organised by The Sarai Programme in January 2014.

  • The Many Lives of Indian Cinema Conference – Recordings – Day 01

    Recordings from the first day of The Many Lives of Indian Cinema conference organised by The Sarai Programme in January 2014.

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    The Many Lives of Indian Cinema Conference – Recordings – Day 01

    Day 01, January 09, 2014 | Day 02, January 10, 2014 | Day 03, January 11, 2014   Histories: Connections and Comparisons Intimacy and Industry: Close Encounters Between Hollywood and Bombay Nitin Govil, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Download: OGG and MP3. Asian Cinergy: Chinese Film in the Age of the International Blockbuster and…

  • 36 hrs - Image by Preeti Singh

    36 hrs, June 06, 2014

    36 hrs is a duration-based provocation to artists/non-artists to share a singular physical space. Through this entire duration of 36 hours people are invited to join in, stay, visit and become a part by contributing to or engaging with individual/collaborative acts, conversations, discussions, performances, readings, watching films, take naps, exert, and exhaust etc. The first…

  • 36 hrs, June 06, 2014

    36 hrs is a duration-based provocation to artists/non-artists to share a singular physical space. Through this entire duration of 36 hours people are invited to join in, stay, visit and become a part by contributing to or engaging with individual/collaborative acts, conversations, discussions, performances, readings, watching films, take naps, exert, and exhaust etc. The first…