Decoding Ambedkar: Ideas of Nation and Nation Building
In Decoding Ambedkar, Prof. Vivek Kumar re-examines Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s vast intellectual contributions, challenging his reductive portrayal in Indian academia and media.
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Propaganda, Communication and Empire: Western Intervention in Afghanistan
Propaganda, Communication and Empire: Western Intervention in Afghanistan (Routledge, 2025) interrogates the mediatized politics of western intervention in Afghanistan, to gain a deeper understanding of the occupation within the broader transition toward a multipolar global order.
Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists
Portrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women’s rights, democracy, modernity, and Islam as part of their nation building in the post-9/11 era. In her new book, Television and the Afghan Culture Wars, Wazhmah Osman places television at the heart of these public and politically charged clashes while revealing how the medium also provides war-weary Afghans with a semblance of open discussion and healing. After four decades of gender and sectarian violence, she argues, the internationally funded media sector has the potential to bring about justice, national integration, and peace.
Media, Nationalism and Globalization: The Telangana Movement and Indian Politics
This presentation explores the meanings of nationalism in a post-globalization, postcolonial context. It provides an in-depth understanding of the relationship between marginalized groups, media and politics by a focused study of the Telangana movement in India.