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 pare ...
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.
It was the month of June, a rainy June, as it is every year in Kerala. I was pregnant and was supposed to deliver my baby on May 26th. I was excited, ...
My mother loved pilgrimages, in fact, several women of her generation loved it. Pilgrimages were the easy travel destinations for a lot ...
The Politics of ‘Apolitical’ Films In a neoliberal world, where cultural industries appropriate emotions and affective spaces, it would be unreali ...
You wake up early on school days. You have chores to do, before you prepare for school. You see your dad walk around, reading the newspaper and ...
Home (2021) As A Representation of Homes In Neoliberal India Kerala saw the release of a film, Home, in August 2021, through the OTT platform Amazon ...