The article explores the cultural politics of regionalism in Coastal Andhra following the
bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh through a focus on the planning of a new capital city …

Listening with a Feminist Ear is a study of the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in
cinema. Eschewing ocularcentric and siloed disciplinary formations, the book takes …

The Telangana movement centred on a cultural identity may indeed succeed in winning
statehood. Yet, identifying and redressing the grievances of Telangana is a twofold …

Adding nuance to the accusation of sustained caste blindness against Indian cinema, this
article situates Nagraj Manjule's Marathi blockbuster Sairat (2016) within the trajectories of …

The article discusses various reports published within the issue including an analysis of the
spectral urban by Sophie Siddique Harvey and another on the analysis of cinematic and …

Abstract This article takes Anand Pandian's notion of “agrarian civility” as a lens through
which we can begin to understand the discourses of morality, merit, and exclusivity that color …

Neo-liberal reforms of the 1990s in India brought new modes of operation which made cities
as the central nodes of the economy. The cities were now reconfigured as servicing hubs for …

Hyderabadi cinema or Deccani cinema refers to films produced in the South Indian city of
Hyderabad in the Deccani language, and the Muslim-dominated region of the city serves as …

The creation of India's 29th state on June 2, 2014 realized a 58-year-old demand for the
division of the state of Andhra Pradesh due to internal economic inequalities. The center's …

The early Telugu cinema echoed the contemporary concerns and movements in the country.
Most films made in Telugu in the first two decades, the 1930s and 1940s, were mythologies …