Prateek
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2168960 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Prateek |
| APELLIDO | Prateek |
| FIRMA | PRATEEK |
| AFILIACIONES | Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2842-326X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 5 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Whispers of hair
The folk stories of Tenali Rama (1480-1528), believed to be a courtier and poet in Vijayanagar king Krishna Deva Raya's court, have inspired many adaptations in India. This study examines the Sony SAB adaptation Tenali Rama (2017-2020), arguing that by dovetailing Tenali's voice with his shikha 's (the lock of hair named Bandhu), it highlights Hinduism's tension between ascetic self-sacrifice and the pragmatic desires of a householder's psyche. W…
Many Rammans in Uttarakhand
Many Rammans in Uttarakhand: Jak and Bhumyal Renditions Prateek (bio) This essay is meant to serve as a compendium to my documentary, Many Rammans in Uttarakhand: Jak and Bhumyal Renditions, which can be accessed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISJ3Mnea0MU. The film highlights the diversity of the folk performance tradition of Ramman in the Indian hill state of Uttarakhand by analyzing two variants of the ritual, each dedicated to a village…
Aboriginalizing Mother Courage
This article investigates the crucial role of Brechtian aesthetics in representing the voice of Aboriginal Australians. It examines the theatre of Wesley Enoch, an Aboriginal Australian director and playwright, and argues that Enoch's 2013 adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, performed at the Queensland Theatre Company, Brisbane, formed an instance of resistance against epistemic hegemony. The first part of the article …
Emergency’s children
This article explores an unusual connection between the poetics of ancient Sanskrit drama and Hindi comics. This interconnection highlights how satire was used in Hindi comics after India’s twenty-one-month Emergency was declared from 1975 to 1977. I argue that Hawaldar Bahadur comics negotiate with the ancient Vidushaka tradition of Sanskrit drama to overcome the angst of the post-Emergency world. In the first part of the article, I analyse the …
Aunties are voices from the sky
This article explores the poetics and politics of the Indian aunty. I argue that the aunty in the movie The Lunchbox (2013) negotiates with the ancient Sanskrit tradition of akashvani (celestial voice). In the first part of the article, I track the aunty’s trajectory from a loan word in Hindi to a political statement. I then study the aunty through an analysis of Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox to demonstrate how the aunty figure rewrites Bollywood’s…
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Aunties are voices from the sky
This article explores the poetics and politics of the Indian aunty. I argue that the aunty in the movie The Lunchbox (2013) negotiates with the ancient Sanskrit tradition of akashvani (celestial voice). In the first part of the article, I track the aunty’s trajectory from a loan word in Hindi to a political statement. I then study the aunty through an analysis of Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox to demonstrate how the aunty figure rewrites Bollywood’s…
Emergency’s children
This article explores an unusual connection between the poetics of ancient Sanskrit drama and Hindi comics. This interconnection highlights how satire was used in Hindi comics after India’s twenty-one-month Emergency was declared from 1975 to 1977. I argue that Hawaldar Bahadur comics negotiate with the ancient Vidushaka tradition of Sanskrit drama to overcome the angst of the post-Emergency world. In the first part of the article, I analyse the …
Many Rammans in Uttarakhand
Many Rammans in Uttarakhand: Jak and Bhumyal Renditions Prateek (bio) This essay is meant to serve as a compendium to my documentary, Many Rammans in Uttarakhand: Jak and Bhumyal Renditions, which can be accessed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISJ3Mnea0MU. The film highlights the diversity of the folk performance tradition of Ramman in the Indian hill state of Uttarakhand by analyzing two variants of the ritual, each dedicated to a village…
Aboriginalizing Mother Courage
This article investigates the crucial role of Brechtian aesthetics in representing the voice of Aboriginal Australians. It examines the theatre of Wesley Enoch, an Aboriginal Australian director and playwright, and argues that Enoch's 2013 adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, performed at the Queensland Theatre Company, Brisbane, formed an instance of resistance against epistemic hegemony. The first part of the article …
Whispers of hair
The folk stories of Tenali Rama (1480-1528), believed to be a courtier and poet in Vijayanagar king Krishna Deva Raya's court, have inspired many adaptations in India. This study examines the Sony SAB adaptation Tenali Rama (2017-2020), arguing that by dovetailing Tenali's voice with his shikha 's (the lock of hair named Bandhu), it highlights Hinduism's tension between ascetic self-sacrifice and the pragmatic desires of a householder's psyche. W…
Art (4 obras) · Literature (3 obras) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (3 obras) · Hindi (2 obras) · History (2 obras) · History (2 obras) · Linguistics (2 obras) · Media studies (2 obras) · Philosophy (2 obras) · Philosophy (2 obras)