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    Ram Gopal Varma as an Auteur
    ( 2011-03-01) Vemireddy, Vamshi
    This article examines various aspects of Ram Gopal Varma's films in order to assess his contribution to Indian cinema as an auteur. Varma's films are critically analyzed through the tenets of authorship and control over a film, auteur sign or brand, consistent visual style in film production that comprise the main discussion among auteur critics. This article also attempts to analyze Varma's work as a director, from Shiva to Sarkar, that have significantly pushed the borders of the Bollywood formula. Varma's films are not studied with any prior assumption to prove him an auteur but to analyze his works within the French and American auteur theoretical framework. While probing into the arguments of the auteur theorists for its basic tenets, various features of auteur theory are clearly seen in his films in terms of personal vision, style, expression and treatment, narration and technique (especially photography, screenplay and characterization), the interconnecting plots and the way the various issues are dealt with. © 2011 Mudra Institute of Communications.
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    The Mundane Female Space: Re-evaluating the Dynamics of Women in the Transnational Kitchen
    ( 2022-01-01) Ghosh, Kashyapi ; Reddy, V. Vamshi Krishna
    The kitchen space has often been read as the ultimate arena for women’s manifold repression, discomfiture, and gendered labour. This article aims to evaluate the nature of the kitchen space through the analysis of movies, which give a significant amount of visibility to the kitchen space. The arguments investigated in this article are laid out in two ways: one, to re-assess the stereotypical notions about the mundane space as prevalent in the literature, and two, to problematise the space and understand it from multiple perspectives and dimensions. We consider these two arguments while conducting a textual analysis and thematic network analysis of two movies, Julie and Julia (2009) and The Lunchbox (2013) for such an assessment, because of the many facets of the kitchen space that are underlined in their narratives. We evaluate the twin concepts of emancipation and emasculation visible in kitchen or food work through Abarca’s “culinary epistemology”. The difference between how the three women protagonists “do gender” is another important point that we put into perspective. Zimmerman and West identified “doing gender” as performing work based on the social script. Care work primarily work in the kitchen can therefore be categorised as gendered since it is bound by societal norms. Both the movies deal at large with female protagonists (identified by me as “Gastronome Women”), their interactions with the kitchen space, and the gendered work that does not always tantamount to drudgery that they perform in their respective social positions. The movies also analyse the role of men as willing participants and agencies that help women achieve, instead of throttling their desires. This study also aims to understand the nature of the relationship that women share with the kitchen space and the difference of gendered performance in each of these women. The kitchen space has multiple connotations: this article aims to ameliorate them without dictating a singular, unilinear view.
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    University of Hyderabad Student Union Elections 2012: An Analysis in the Light of Lyngdoh Committee Recommendations
    ( 2014-06-01) Dechamma C.C, Sowmya
    Student politics in India has had a bearing on national politics since colonial times. In contemporary times, student politics is closely connected to student union elections across the country. Although always controversial, student elections have become even more contentious, especially after the Lyngdoh Committee Recommendations (2006). The objective of this article is therefore to analyse these contentions with Student Union Elections in the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, as an example and to attempt at possible ways forward.
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    Competence and confidence through technology enhanced language learning-the impact of technology among rural and semi-urban undergraduates of engineering in India: A study
    ( 2019-07-01) Gundala, Upender ; Reddy, V. V.K. ; Dwivedi, P. S.
    The present study is an assessment of the efficacy of technology enhanced language learning (TELL) in teaching English to undergraduates pursuing third year of Engineering program using specific modules based on 'Internet and Smart Phone' in the Advanced English Communication Skills Lab (AECS). After a pilot study, students were divided into two groups and a group of them were deliberately asked to use internet both in their computers and smart phones whereas others were exposed to designed software in the lab. They were given authentic tasks such as watching selected documentaries, presentations on selected CEOs of pioneering technical firms along with selected successful entrepreneurs of India. Consequently, students were asked to read and write case studies and assessed through presentations, group discussions and mock interviews. Remarkably, the outcomes revealed that TELL facilitated the target students of rural and semi urban areas significantly in enhancing their language competence, and, therefore, confidence more effectively than the other group of students who used designed software in the lab.
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    Islam and nationalism in India: South Indian contexts
    ( 2016-01-01) Ansari, M. T.
    Islam in India, as elsewhere, continues to be seen as a remainder in its refusal to "conform" to national and international secular-modern norms. Such a general perception has also had a tremendous impact on the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent, who as individuals and communities have been shaped and transformed over centuries of socio-political and historical processes, by eroding their world-view and steadily erasing their life-worlds. This book traces the spectral presence of Islam across narratives to note that difference and diversity, demographic as well as cultural, can be espoused rather than excised or exorcized. Focusing on Malabar - home to the Mappila Muslim community in Kerala, South India - and drawing mostly on Malayalam sources, the author investigates the question of Islam from various angles by constituting an archive comprising popular, administrative, academic, and literary discourses. The author contends that an uncritical insistence on unity has led to a formation in which "minor" subjects embody an excess of identity, in contrast to the Hindu-citizen whose identity seemingly coincides with the national. This has led to Muslims being the source of a deep-seated anxiety for secular nationalism and the targets of a resurgent Hindutva in that they expose the fault-lines of a geographically and socio-culturally unified nation.