... The antecedents for the contemporary Bombay film industry emerge from this era. ... Prithvira... more ... The antecedents for the contemporary Bombay film industry emerge from this era. ... Prithviraj Kapoor who would become one of the stars of pre-independence Hindi cinema, and literally ... language sound feature in 1933, Dukhtar-e-Lur, and thus an aspect of Iranian film history ...
Consonants in written Hindi often carry annotations indicating the nature of the following vowel,... more Consonants in written Hindi often carry annotations indicating the nature of the following vowel, which is not written separately. When there is no explicit marking, schwa is the default vowel, but this vowel does not always emerge in a word’s pronunciation. In addition, morphological boundaries can block the deletion of inherent schwas. Previous implementations of schwa deletion in the domain
... The antecedents for the contemporary Bombay film industry emerge from this era. ... Prithvira... more ... The antecedents for the contemporary Bombay film industry emerge from this era. ... Prithviraj Kapoor who would become one of the stars of pre-independence Hindi cinema, and literally ... language sound feature in 1933, Dukhtar-e-Lur, and thus an aspect of Iranian film history ...
This study is a critical examination of news reports, editorials, and other stories directly rela... more This study is a critical examination of news reports, editorials, and other stories directly related to the rape of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi, India, on 16 December 2012. I examine newspaper stories published in two widely circulated newspapers, The Times of India and Dainik Jagran from 17 December to 31 December, two days after the victim died of the injuries incurred during the rape on 16 December. Studies have shown that English or regional language newspapers in India do not give fair treatment in terms of coverage of incidents related to violence against women. This story, however, was different. I provide a critical discourse analysis of news reports, editorials, and comments on this episode to show that the social construction of violence against women, ideological prisms of the reporters, socio-cultural contexts of the media reports, and neoliberal subjectivity that was shaken by this episode played into the newspapers' treatment of this news.
In this paper, we juxtapose the present-day Supreme Court battles over the colonial antisodomy pr... more In this paper, we juxtapose the present-day Supreme Court battles over the colonial antisodomy provisions in the Indian Penal Code (Section 377), with everyday interpretations of carnal intercourse by kotis and jananas in order to visibilize a whole different social world of carnality. The responses to the law coming from the civil society formations (namely the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights organizations, HIV/AIDS organizations and women's rights organizations) are the site for the formation of a modern Indian homosexual subject, one who claims her/his rights to love and privacy through the language of human rights and constitutional freedom. We argue that the arrival of the modern rights-bearing homosexual subject is contested by political and religious formations through discourses of sin, unnaturality and proper sexual conduct. The contestation of religious discourse through the discourse of constitutional rights covers over the creative interpretations of religion provided by kotis/jananas. An analysis of the kotis/ janana discourse and bodily practices reveals sexual subject formation through the creative reinterpretation of notions such as sin and unnaturality. In conclusion, we contend that the creative interpretations of religious themes by kotis/jananas trouble nationalist religious discourses as well as the constitutional discourses of the LGBT rights movement.
... The antecedents for the contemporary Bombay film industry emerge from this era. ... Prithvira... more ... The antecedents for the contemporary Bombay film industry emerge from this era. ... Prithviraj Kapoor who would become one of the stars of pre-independence Hindi cinema, and literally ... language sound feature in 1933, Dukhtar-e-Lur, and thus an aspect of Iranian film history ...
Consonants in written Hindi often carry annotations indicating the nature of the following vowel,... more Consonants in written Hindi often carry annotations indicating the nature of the following vowel, which is not written separately. When there is no explicit marking, schwa is the default vowel, but this vowel does not always emerge in a word’s pronunciation. In addition, morphological boundaries can block the deletion of inherent schwas. Previous implementations of schwa deletion in the domain
... The antecedents for the contemporary Bombay film industry emerge from this era. ... Prithvira... more ... The antecedents for the contemporary Bombay film industry emerge from this era. ... Prithviraj Kapoor who would become one of the stars of pre-independence Hindi cinema, and literally ... language sound feature in 1933, Dukhtar-e-Lur, and thus an aspect of Iranian film history ...
This study is a critical examination of news reports, editorials, and other stories directly rela... more This study is a critical examination of news reports, editorials, and other stories directly related to the rape of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi, India, on 16 December 2012. I examine newspaper stories published in two widely circulated newspapers, The Times of India and Dainik Jagran from 17 December to 31 December, two days after the victim died of the injuries incurred during the rape on 16 December. Studies have shown that English or regional language newspapers in India do not give fair treatment in terms of coverage of incidents related to violence against women. This story, however, was different. I provide a critical discourse analysis of news reports, editorials, and comments on this episode to show that the social construction of violence against women, ideological prisms of the reporters, socio-cultural contexts of the media reports, and neoliberal subjectivity that was shaken by this episode played into the newspapers' treatment of this news.
In this paper, we juxtapose the present-day Supreme Court battles over the colonial antisodomy pr... more In this paper, we juxtapose the present-day Supreme Court battles over the colonial antisodomy provisions in the Indian Penal Code (Section 377), with everyday interpretations of carnal intercourse by kotis and jananas in order to visibilize a whole different social world of carnality. The responses to the law coming from the civil society formations (namely the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights organizations, HIV/AIDS organizations and women's rights organizations) are the site for the formation of a modern Indian homosexual subject, one who claims her/his rights to love and privacy through the language of human rights and constitutional freedom. We argue that the arrival of the modern rights-bearing homosexual subject is contested by political and religious formations through discourses of sin, unnaturality and proper sexual conduct. The contestation of religious discourse through the discourse of constitutional rights covers over the creative interpretations of religion provided by kotis/jananas. An analysis of the kotis/ janana discourse and bodily practices reveals sexual subject formation through the creative reinterpretation of notions such as sin and unnaturality. In conclusion, we contend that the creative interpretations of religious themes by kotis/jananas trouble nationalist religious discourses as well as the constitutional discourses of the LGBT rights movement.
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