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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Hindu mythology"”.
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Darśan - Dance for Kriśna
… participants an artistic, somatic immersion in Hindu mythology. The exhibit interprets the Hindu concept of 'darśana'—a practice involving the experience and observance of a deity—through a contemporary lens. At the heart of the installation is Lord Kṛṣṇa, the beloved flutist deity celebrated …
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Female Desire in Contemporary Indian Cinema
… fuelled feminism and Indian feminism, as well as Hindu religious beliefs and traditions, as I believe these can offer unexpected clues to the representation of females in Bollywood. Various factors, including race, caste, religion and Hindu mythology, impact Indian cinema, but my hypotheses are …
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Bleeding Details
… begins at my Nani Ji’s house. Movies depicting Hindu mythology played in the background of our family gatherings- movies where Hanuman would grow to the size of a mountain or Shiva would morph between genders. These shifts between scale, gender, and material affirmed the queerness I had yet to …
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Being dark and foreign: a study of race in New Delhi's African student population
… understandings of difference rooted in Hindu mythology, which themselves are inflected by global discourses of race (Amin, 2010). The Indian cultural phenomenon of a preference for light skin indicated by a rapidly growing cosmetics industry, is shown to carry purchase within global …