26 research outputs found
Book review: Pathak, Dev Nath (Ed.), Another South Asia!
No full text Pathak, Dev Nath (Ed.), Another South Asia! Primus Books: New Delhi, 2018. 323 Pages. ₹1,395 US$69.95. ISBN: 978-93-86552-58-7. </jats:p
sj-pdf-1-cep-10.1177_03331024231182684 - Supplemental material for The effect of low dose thyroid replacement therapy in patients with episodic migraine and subclinical hypothyroidism: A randomised placebo-controlled trial
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-cep-10.1177_03331024231182684 for The effect of low dose thyroid replacement therapy in patients with episodic migraine and subclinical hypothyroidism: A randomised placebo-controlled trial by Priya Dev, T.T. Favas, Rishab Jaiswal, Mareena Cyriac, Vijaya Nath Mishra and Abhishek Pathak in Cephalalgia</p
The enchantment of urbanization: closer look at market’s narrative in Indian cities
No full textThe purpose of the paper is to show that the experiment of ‘development,’ being a byproduct of modernity, is an experiment that has gone too far. Despite exposing its miseries, it sustains its popularity on its enchantment. This enchanted view is predicated upon a particular version of economic thinking that celebrates markets and continues to reproduce various visions of development, most ‘attractively’, urbanization. Given the acute failure of urbanization to develop an inclusionary society and politics in developing countries, there is an urgent need to reconfigure how the imagination of urbanization, as a poster-child of enchanted development should be recrafted. It locates blind-spots in the standard narrative of market-driven-development, and alert the policy maker regarding the continuum of a characteristic growth trajectory that developing nations are miserably (and yet wondrously) stuck in
Intersections and Implications: When Anthropology, Art Practice, and Art History Converge
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Humorous Masculinity
No full textPerera S, Pathak DN, Sandhya AS, Adkar C. Humorous Masculinity. In: Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia. Anxiety, Laughter and Politics in Unstable Times. London: Routledge India; 2021: 139-155.Stereotypical representations of socially marginalised groups have been historically used towards the ‘othering’ of certain communities. This chapter explores the use of humour in such representations to understand how laughter is performed to draw social boundaries with the marginalised other. The Indian male gaze cast upon the Nepali man is at the center of this discussion. We use the framework of the superiority theory of humour and problematise the ‘gaze’ to trace the impact of race relations embedded in colonial history and the present-day migrant-class status of the Nepali male subject, on his stereotypical portrayal. The arguments unravelling the imagination of this caricature are built upon examples from three distinct sites of humour. We begin with the examination of text-based jokes forwarded through mass-messaging platforms and then proceed to look at how these portrayals are captured in visual media and in the cinematic experience. Lastly, we analyse ‘cringe pop’ on social media in search of the Indian male gaze when the visibility of this stereotypical Nepali man has waned up to an extent. The gaze that is cast upon the subject of such humour is understood in terms of what becomes a hegemonic ideal of masculinity and the laughter that follows further legitimises this exercise of power
