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LECTURE | Madhavi Murty, UC Santa Cruz | “Are we the story or merely a character in it?” Laal Singh Chaddha’s Narration of the Ordinary in the Time of Hindutva Neoliberalism

When

Thursday, 10/17/2024, 3 – 4:30 p.m. PDT

Event interval

Single day event

Campus location

Thomson Hall (THO)

Campus room

THO 317

Accessibility Contact

sascuw@uw.edu

Event Types

Lectures/Seminars

Event sponsors

UW South Asia Center
Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity
Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Target Audience

Free and open to the public. Registration advised.

Description

In this new essay on the Hindi film Laal Singh Chaddha (Advait Chandan, 2022), an adaptation of Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994), I suggest that the Hindi film is making an intervention in public discourse by deliberately negating the forms in which Hindu nationalism and Indian capitalism come together. In my recently published book, Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India, I have argued that neoliberalism and Hindu…

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