Kaifia Ancer Laskar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1175652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kaifia Ancer Laskar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kaifia Ancer |
| FAMILY NAME | Laskar |
| SIGNATURE | LASKAR K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aliah University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4375-8738 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Kabuliwala to Kesari: Mapping the (Mis)representations of Afghans in Hindi films
Indians and Afghans have shared memories, cultural and historical linkages. Besides Kabul being a part of the Mughal Empire for a long time, more than half of the Pashtuns living to the east of the Durand Line were part of undivided India (present-day Pakistan) during the British rule. With most Indian cities having significant Afghan residents, Afghans/Pashtuns got special attention in popular narratives, including in Hindi films. In movies like…
Reel Mughals: Medieval themed films as mediatized rituals building collective antagonistic memory
The historiography or phrasing of history remains contentious in India, where the medieval past is seen as dubiously peppered with multiple foreign aggressors and usurpers. Increasingly, films have begun to play the role of palimpsest in rewriting history, often compromising historical facts by crediting myths, rumours, bazar gossips and motivated propaganda. While Hollywood films have used the rhetoric of terrorism to otherize Muslims post 9/11,…
Ethnicity in popular culture: Deployment of anti-Muslimism and history rewriting through Indian digital media entertainment content
Mediated mythical discourses: A critical analysis of the female docility and religious discourses in Indian TV soap operas
Media representations have the power to evoke and circulate meanings about a dominant favoured ideology. Like films, television soap operas too may become the sites of hetero-patriarchal representation. This article foregrounds the visual and textual tropes applied to coerce the audience into accepting patriarchal gender roles in the disguise of religious discourse. Using critical discourse analysis of three select Hindi soap operas Saath Nibhana…
The Underrepresented ‘Other’: Portrayal of Religious Minorities in Hindi Language Cartoon Shows
Media are sites of struggle for representations, and cartoon shows on television can immensely impact the psyche of young viewers. Drawing upon Bandura’s social cognitive theory, George Gerber’s cultivation theory and symbolic annihilation, this study investigates how the symbolic annihilation of minorities takes place in Hindi language cartoon shows. We examine how Hindi language cartoon shows produced in India methodically underrepresent charac…
Mediated facets: A review of Many Voices, Many Worlds edited by Faiz Ullah et al
Gender-sensitive Portrayal in Cartoon Shows for Preschoolers: A Critical Analysis of Masha and the Bear
Most of the studies on children’s programming conducted in America or India, indicating an unbalanced and stereotypical gender representation, remain limited to those on older children. The present study explores if cartoon shows for preschoolers resort to the counter-hegemonic portrayal of male/female characters, and if thereby have any scope for representation of gender fluidity within it. Consequently, it also attempts to discern the ways in w…
Community radio stations’ production responses to Covid-19 pandemic in India
The COVID-19 pandemic and the nationwide lockdown have made community radio broadcasting more important than before. Using case studies and interviews, we explored the kind of programming adopted by selected community radio (CR) stations in India during the pandemic and how they fight fake news. We also analyzed other issues they addressed during this period. We identified more dedicated programming services concerning COVID-19, fake news, and me…
Mapping the fake news infodemic amidst the Covid-19 pandemic: A study of Indian fact-checking websites
Fake news, a term that was never heard a decade back, has established a subculture of misinformation and disinformation, whether intentionally or unintentionally, on social media by its users. The personal bias as well as unverified content sharing through the click of a button has not only led to the epidemic of fake content across the world, but in countries like India, it has also led to lynching and violence in various places. This article tr…
Mapping the fake news infodemic amidst the Covid-19 pandemic: A study of Indian fact-checking websites
Fake news, a term that was never heard a decade back, has established a subculture of misinformation and disinformation, whether intentionally or unintentionally, on social media by its users. The personal bias as well as unverified content sharing through the click of a button has not only led to the epidemic of fake content across the world, but in countries like India, it has also led to lynching and violence in various places. This article tr…
Gender-sensitive Portrayal in Cartoon Shows for Preschoolers: A Critical Analysis of Masha and the Bear
Most of the studies on children’s programming conducted in America or India, indicating an unbalanced and stereotypical gender representation, remain limited to those on older children. The present study explores if cartoon shows for preschoolers resort to the counter-hegemonic portrayal of male/female characters, and if thereby have any scope for representation of gender fluidity within it. Consequently, it also attempts to discern the ways in w…
Community radio stations’ production responses to Covid-19 pandemic in India
The COVID-19 pandemic and the nationwide lockdown have made community radio broadcasting more important than before. Using case studies and interviews, we explored the kind of programming adopted by selected community radio (CR) stations in India during the pandemic and how they fight fake news. We also analyzed other issues they addressed during this period. We identified more dedicated programming services concerning COVID-19, fake news, and me…
Mapping the fake news infodemic amidst the Covid-19 pandemic: A study of Indian fact-checking websites
Fake news, a term that was never heard a decade back, has established a subculture of misinformation and disinformation, whether intentionally or unintentionally, on social media by its users. The personal bias as well as unverified content sharing through the click of a button has not only led to the epidemic of fake content across the world, but in countries like India, it has also led to lynching and violence in various places. This article tr…
The Underrepresented ‘Other’: Portrayal of Religious Minorities in Hindi Language Cartoon Shows
Media are sites of struggle for representations, and cartoon shows on television can immensely impact the psyche of young viewers. Drawing upon Bandura’s social cognitive theory, George Gerber’s cultivation theory and symbolic annihilation, this study investigates how the symbolic annihilation of minorities takes place in Hindi language cartoon shows. We examine how Hindi language cartoon shows produced in India methodically underrepresent charac…
Mediated facets: A review of Many Voices, Many Worlds edited by Faiz Ullah et al
Mediated mythical discourses: A critical analysis of the female docility and religious discourses in Indian TV soap operas
Media representations have the power to evoke and circulate meanings about a dominant favoured ideology. Like films, television soap operas too may become the sites of hetero-patriarchal representation. This article foregrounds the visual and textual tropes applied to coerce the audience into accepting patriarchal gender roles in the disguise of religious discourse. Using critical discourse analysis of three select Hindi soap operas Saath Nibhana…
From Kabuliwala to Kesari: Mapping the (Mis)representations of Afghans in Hindi films
Indians and Afghans have shared memories, cultural and historical linkages. Besides Kabul being a part of the Mughal Empire for a long time, more than half of the Pashtuns living to the east of the Durand Line were part of undivided India (present-day Pakistan) during the British rule. With most Indian cities having significant Afghan residents, Afghans/Pashtuns got special attention in popular narratives, including in Hindi films. In movies like…
Reel Mughals: Medieval themed films as mediatized rituals building collective antagonistic memory
The historiography or phrasing of history remains contentious in India, where the medieval past is seen as dubiously peppered with multiple foreign aggressors and usurpers. Increasingly, films have begun to play the role of palimpsest in rewriting history, often compromising historical facts by crediting myths, rumours, bazar gossips and motivated propaganda. While Hollywood films have used the rhetoric of terrorism to otherize Muslims post 9/11,…
Ethnicity in popular culture: Deployment of anti-Muslimism and history rewriting through Indian digital media entertainment content
Political science (5 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Hindi (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)