http://bedtea.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/rushdie-rulers-and-rumblings-in-rajasthan/ Darjeeling-fueled notes on art, culture, and making it in NY Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:44:05 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://bedtea.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/rushdie-rulers-and-rumblings-in-rajasthan/#comment-98 Jodhaa Akbar and other molehills at Blogbharti Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:08:24 +0000 http://bedtea.wordpress.com/?p=149#comment-98 [...] Bed Tea finds the way the Indian middle class interacts with Bollywood ‘enlightening’: Mass hysteria, the making of a mountain out of a molehill? Or a microcosm of a deep sense of unrest about (historical and contemporary) identity in India? I can’t say that I have any answers, or even insight. But Bollywood — and artistic expression, disciplined studies or street-level outpourings — does, however, seem like an important vehicle for understanding the subcontinent; I certainly find it, and the way people in the middle class interact with it, more enlightening than figures from the World Bank about the economy’s growth. [...] [...] Bed Tea finds the way the Indian middle class interacts with Bollywood ‘enlightening’: Mass hysteria, the making of a mountain out of a molehill? Or a microcosm of a deep sense of unrest about (historical and contemporary) identity in India? I can’t say that I have any answers, or even insight. But Bollywood — and artistic expression, disciplined studies or street-level outpourings — does, however, seem like an important vehicle for understanding the subcontinent; I certainly find it, and the way people in the middle class interact with it, more enlightening than figures from the World Bank about the economy’s growth. [...]

]]> http://bedtea.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/rushdie-rulers-and-rumblings-in-rajasthan/#comment-97 Popular Links: Feb.25 - Mar.01 | DesiPundit Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:01:06 +0000 http://bedtea.wordpress.com/?p=149#comment-97 [...] still have the Jodhaa-Akbar hangover as Bedtea points to a Rushdie article in the NY Times weighing in on the Akbar courtroom [posted by [...] [...] still have the Jodhaa-Akbar hangover as Bedtea points to a Rushdie article in the NY Times weighing in on the Akbar courtroom [posted by [...]

]]> http://bedtea.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/rushdie-rulers-and-rumblings-in-rajasthan/#comment-90 Jodhaa Akbar score | DesiPundit Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:29:08 +0000 http://bedtea.wordpress.com/?p=149#comment-90 [...] we’re on the subject, BedTea points to an interesting article about Akbar in the New Yorker by Salman Rushdie. [Hat tip: S [...] [...] we’re on the subject, BedTea points to an interesting article about Akbar in the New Yorker by Salman Rushdie. [Hat tip: S [...]

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