Visual Anthropology Review 38.2
The cover of Visual Anthropology Review (VAR) recent issue 38.2 features Rajat Nayyar’s photograph of Aaji and her granddaughter in Bihar! Thank you to the editors for including Rajat’s research article “Granular Activisms: Women’s Vocality and Multimodality in Rural North India” alongside excellent scholarship that pushes the boundaries of Visual Anthropology! https://www.visualanthropologyreview.org
“Granular Activisms: Women’s Vocality and Multimodality in Rural North India”
Espírito Kashi founder Rajat Nayyar has just published his article “Granular Activisms: Women’s Vocality and Multimodality in Rural North India” in Visual Athropology Review (VAR) journal of American Anthropology Association (AAA). https://doi.org/10.1111/var.12277 It might be of interest especially to those studying voice, women’s vocal traditions, and community-based filmmaking. In it, Rajat theorizes (different forms of) […]
Blu-ray disks of ‘Kashi Labh’ at Swiss Anthropological Association (SAA)
Blu-ray disks of our film Kashi Labh have arrived at the Swiss Anthropological Association (SAA) in Neuchâtel, Switzerland! The Audio-Visual Commission of the association acquired two copies for their film collection which can be borrowed by university departments and institutes in Switzerland. https://sagw.ch/en/seg/ Many thanks to German International Ethnographic Film Festival where this new archival […]
‘Kashi Labh’ at German International Ethnographic Film Festival 2020 in an online FREE version
Happy to let you all know that my film ‘Kashi Labh’ will be screened at German International Ethnographic Film Festival 2020 in an online FREE version from May 13-17. In the film Kashi Labh, family members often travel long distances to gather and engage with the human, non-human and spiritual aspects of the city during […]
Saba Dewan’s Tawaifnama – A brief review
Saba Dewan’s new book ‘Tawaifnama’ is a remarkable read about contributions of women to Hindustani classical music, All India Radio, theatre, silent film, Bollywood, and in India’s freedom from British. It was fascinating to learn how tawaifs had negotiated the onslaughts by colonialism and Hindu nationalism upon their way of life and art practice. It […]
Kashi Vishwanath Corridor: Discussion with Dr. Dipak Malik, Rajendra Tiwari, Dr. Mohammed Arif
(The author would like to remain anonymous, fearing deportation by the Indian state.) I have been visiting Varanasi for the past 30 years. During this year’s visit, a dear Indian friend of mine and lover of Varanasi asked me to take a tour around the Vishwanath temple and to share what I thought of the […]
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