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  The Chinese Connection: Memory and Loss in The Legend of Fat Mama

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  Anirban Baishya University of Southern California

  March 17, 2016

  The Chinese Connection: Memory and Loss in The Legend of Fat Mama India Im(Possible) Asias ...
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  The Making of “Desi” Culture on MTV

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  Madhavi Mallapragada University of Texas at Austin

  April 05, 2007

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  one's identity as South Asian but also as being "outside South Asia". As the young man reminds ...
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  Who Wants to be an Indian? Re-imagining Reality with Global TV Formats

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  Lauhona Ganguly The New School

  November 17, 2011

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  conditions that favor such reproductions and the mediations that make it possible. KBC, the Hindi title of ...
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  Cellphone Footage as Witness and Instrument for Vigilante Justice

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  Fatma Matin Khan University of Delhi

  March 04, 2015

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  wrote “i made sure i humiliate him as much as possible because i know law will do nothing”. There has ...
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  Nights @ Indian Call Centers

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  James Daniel Elam Northwestern University

  October 26, 2009

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  are possible when the other you’re "viewing" is otherwise unseeable? ...
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  Indian Idol and Flash Fandom

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  Aswin Punathambekar University of Michigan

  November 21, 2007

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  Indian Idol and Flash Fandom fandom reality TV international TV formats American Idol Indian Idol regionalism India Amit Paul flash fandom Curator's Note In summer 2007, media coverage of Indian Idol-3 focused on how finalist Amit Paul managed to cre ...
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  The Inadequately Violent State?

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  Samir Dayal Bentley University

  May 17, 2010

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  character, possibly a conceit borrowed from Rain Man (Barry Levinson, 1988), and the "stupidity" of ...
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  Women and Stand-up Comedy in India: Performing Personal, Situated Comedy

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  Madhavi Shivaprasad Advanced Centre for Women's Studies Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai

  March 12, 2020

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  Women and Stand-up Comedy in India: Performing Personal, Situated Comedy stand-up comedy situated comedy India female comedians cultural citizenship Curator's Note (This section is a small part of a larger chapter on the gender dynamics within the In ...
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  Bant Singh can still sing

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  Jyotsna Kapur Southern Illinois University

  February 02, 2007

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  Bant Singh can still sing Featured globalization Youtube music India otherness Bant Singh caste activism Curator's Note Posted on YouTube, this unforgettable video-letter by Sanjay Kak and Anurag Singh sears the brain. Here, Bant Singh, a lower-caste ...