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<Bombay Horror, through its Errors and Failures

Bombay Horror, through its Errors and Failures

By Kartik Nair, author of Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror What makes a vampire burn in the light? We don’t quite know. But in her stylish short film, Suicide by …

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<How Singapore Transformed its Cultural Image to Become “Global Asia”

How Singapore Transformed its Cultural Image to Become “Global Asia”

By Cheryl Narumi Naruse, author of Becoming Global Asia: Contemporary Genres of Postcolonial Capitalism in Singapore Becoming Global Asia is part of the UC Press Transpacific Series Though once widely regarded as …

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<Q&A with Divya Cherian, author of <i>Merchants of Virtue</i>

Q&A with Divya Cherian, author of Merchants of Virtue

Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences, Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian …

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