Projects
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Hinglish Workshop, 18-19 August 2014 – Readings
The Hinglish workshop is being organised by The Sarai Programme, CSDS, and SOAS, University of London. This workshop seeks to explore and understand the new porousness of Hindi and English in everyday and cultural practices and the relationship between language use and social and cultural imaginaries, along lines of inclusion, stratification, and exclusion. Read the…
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Hinglish Workshop, 18-19 August 2014 – Abstracts
The Hinglish workshop is being organised by The Sarai Programme, CSDS, and SOAS, University of London. This workshop seeks to explore and understand the new porousness of Hindi and English in everyday and cultural practices and the relationship between language use and social and cultural imaginaries, along lines of inclusion, stratification, and exclusion. Read the…
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Hinglish Workshop, 18-19 August 2014 – Abstracts
The Hinglish workshop is being organised by The Sarai Programme, CSDS, and SOAS, University of London. This workshop seeks to explore and understand the new porousness of Hindi and English in everyday and cultural practices and the relationship between language use and social and cultural imaginaries, along lines of inclusion, stratification, and exclusion. Read the…
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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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Decoding the Big Indian Sting
I revisit the inaugural moment of Tehelka’s Operation Westend. Journalists Mathew Samuels and Anirudh Bahal, posing as arms dealers from a fictitious London-based company called West End International hawked a non-existent Defense product called ‘hand-held thermal cameras’ to the Indian government by bribing several ministers and top-level bureaucrats… This post also contains excerpts of interviews conducted with … [technicians] to outline common technical practices the ‘industry’ follows in carefully constructing and packaging sting operations.
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Alternative Media: An Agent and of Change in Kashmir
In conflicts like one in Kashmir, news and information gets buried due to the pressure from conflicting parties, collusion of the news sources with the various agencies or simply because of the lack of will to explore. With the social media, the chances of the burial of the information reduce…
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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…
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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…
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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…
