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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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  Beauty and the Boast

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  Sangita Gopal University of Oregon

  February 28, 2007

  film-maker said that Shahrukh's fantastic for that because he is a man with a very strong female side ... side. I have a female front, back, females all around me dude. I am sensitive and nice to woman. I have ...
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  The Inadequately Violent State?

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  Samir Dayal Bentley University

  May 17, 2010

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  side of life.  In  the case of this ordinary man-turned-terrorist, stupidity is certainly a plea on the ... side of life but a plea enacted by a threat against it, against other ordinary citizens of India.  It ... character, possibly a conceit borrowed from Rain Man (Barry Levinson, 1988), and the "stupidity" 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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  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

  1 comment

  conditions that favor such reproductions and the mediations that make it possible. KBC, the Hindi title of ...
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  Nights @ Indian Call Centers

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  James Daniel Elam Northwestern University

  October 26, 2009

  1 comment

  are possible when the other you’re "viewing" is otherwise unseeable? ...
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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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  The Making of “Desi” Culture on MTV youth culture transnational South Asian promo MTV India immigration Desi Curator's Note In this video titled, "You are not an Indian," a young male addresses viewers who like him are neither just American ...
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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 ...
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  A Family Drama: Television and the fight for the national family

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  Aswin Punathambekar University of Michigan

  April 02, 2008

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  A Family Drama: Television and the fight for the national family transnational identity NDTV Imagine nationalism Karan Johar India globalization Doordashan diaspora branding Bollywood Curator's Note Over the past two decades, the landscape of televis ...
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  Calling the Working South Asian: American Accents and Outsourced

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  Shilpa Davé University of Virginia

  March 25, 2011

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  Calling the Working South Asian: American Accents and Outsourced television South Asians South Asian racial performance Outsourced India comedy Asian Americans Accent Curator's Note In the 2010 season, NBC launched a situation comedy, Outsourced, tha ...

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