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Swapna Gopinath

Swapna Gopinath teaches film and cultural studies at Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Pune. She is a Fulbright fellow and is a former postdoc fellow at the School for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She writes on cinema, gender and discursive practices.

Growing up with Afro Curls

Life in the 1970s and 80s was not easy for a child, school was full of bullies, teachers were yet to be sensitive to child psychology, and parents were not too eager to be concerned about their children’s mental health. It
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When Gangubai becomes Gangubhai

The Politics of ‘Apolitical’ Films In a neoliberal world, where cultural industries appropriate emotions and affective spaces, it would be unrealistic to expect popular mainstream films to portray social reality or to invite critical deliberations through cultural texts. Yet we often encounter
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