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The perfect bride: money, matrimony and reality television:
Matrimonial alliances are a big subject on reality television. This essay examines the ‘perfect bride’ as developed on the show called ‘Lux Perfect Bride’ on Star Plus and tries to enquire into the way the space between tradition, globalization and consumer choice is negotiated by the show.
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Genre and moral panic: revisiting ‘Sach Ka Saamna’.
In this essay two media researchers examine the reality show ‘Sach Ka Saamna’ and the moral panic it created – both in the left and the right – and inquire into the underlying discourses in the controversy.
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The magical world of Bombay Talkies (1934-54)
takes the reader through the history of Himanshu Rai’s production company Bombay Talkies and charts its rise and fall.
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Unattainable women: sexual anxiety in three films by Scorsese, Rohmer and Kiarostami:
examines three films from different cultures, films which have the same motif – that of the failure of pairing or couple formation. It also speculates about how the representation of social relationships is dependant on how the notion of ‘liberty’ is understood in the culture.
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Om Shanti Om: parody, enchantment, self-reflexivity:
is an unabashed appreciation of one of the most celebrated Hindi films of recent times.
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Dharma and governance:
Where the term ‘governance’ is normally associated with management, this essay recognizes that it is much more a moral issue and tries to look at it through the prism of religious thought.
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Some issues in ‘doing science’ in India:
This is an informal and partly personal attempt by a practitioner in science to raise questions or issues pertaining to ‘doing science’ in India.
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The rose of Paracelsus:
The first time translation from Spanish into English of a later story by Jorge Luis Borges, together with brief notes from the translator.
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