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Dreams, dharma and Mrs. Doubtfire: exploring Hindi popular cinema via its "chutneyed" Western scripts
Abstract: The author introduces the popular films of Bombay--or of Bollywood, as it is familiarly know--via that industry's odd but practical proclivity ......(Continue Reading) Ghosts in the city of widows: when their husbands die, devout indian women make the pilgrimage to Vrindavan, where they will pray for others, and await
Vrindavan is a city of widows, of ashrams, temples and Lodging-houses for the wasted women of India, whose husbands have died and whose children have ......(Continue Reading)Edinburgh International Festival
VARIOUS VENUES, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND AUGUST 15-SEPTEMBER 5, 2004 There was something for everyone at the Edinburgh Festival 2004, front tributes to ......(Continue Reading)2004 Ad
This year, India hosted the Fourth World Social Forum and in so doing, utterly transformed it. On January 16, over 100,000 people gathered in Mumbai ......(Continue Reading)Monsoon Wedding: raining on tradition - Film As Text
IN MONSOON WEDDING (2001), director Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala 1998, Salaam Bombay! 1991) successfully entertains us with an over-the-top Indian wedding. She also presents some serious issues th...(Continue Reading)
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