Shailendra Kumar Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686806 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shailendra Kumar Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shailendra Kumar |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jamia Millia Islamia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6848-8108 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From tales to transformation
Contemporary education faces a persistent gap between theoretical knowledge and its application in ethical reasoning, reflection, and real-world problem-solving. Although Action Learning (AL), developed by Reg Revans, emphasizes learning through action and questioning, its use remains largely confined to professional settings and lacks culturally meaningful frameworks for younger learners. This paper proposes the Pañcatantra-Action Learning (PAL)…
Discordant discourses
The 2008 Noida double murder of Aarushi Talwar and Hemraj Banjade can be understood as a curious amalgam of unsolvability, sensationalism, and moral polarization that defined post-millennial India. This article attempts a close reading of two Hindi films on the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case, namely Rahasya ( Mystery , 2015) and Talvar ( The Sword , 2015), using the insights of cultural criminology in order to understand the politics of interpretatio…
Desecration of the fat Brahman in select fiction of Premchand
Strategic integration
In the dynamic contemporary business landscape, the convergence of technology, finance, and management plays a pivotal role in organizational success. This research explores the multifaceted realm of strategic integration, emphasizing the intricate balance between these domains. The background sets the stage, elucidating the historical evolution and growing relevance of this integration. Various research methodologies, including case studies, sur…
Rewriting Purushartha
This article investigates the implicit subtext of masculinity that undergirds Yashpal’s two-volume novel Jhutha Sach (The False Truth, 1958–1960), one of the most frequently sidestepped classics of Partition literature. It seeks to address the persistent scholarly amnesia that largely exists within the ever-expanding corpus of Partition Studies and which, more often than not, reveals an overwhelming preoccupation with questions relating to violen…
Fatness, girlhood, and self-acceptance in Gippi and Fanney Khan
This article explores the multiple discursive negotiations through which adolescent fat subjectivities are reconstituted in two films, namely Gippi (2013) and Fanney Khan (2018). Taking an intersectional approach between the fat acceptance movement and girlhood studies, it demonstrates how the female protagonists challenge, question, and eventually undermine the hitherto existing paradigms of corporeality in Hindi cinema. The fat female body that…
Lesbian longings and the question of a queer repertoire in The “Other” Love Story
In recent years, there has been an emerging critical discourse in South Asia that examines the changing contours of representational politics that could, in turn, be strategically mobilized to introduce an alternative idiom of same-sex love within a standard template of heterosexual storytelling. This has been complemented by an evaluation of alternative modes of sexual politics that need not necessarily conform to Western labels or paradigms of …
Female Pleasure and the Gender Politics of “Girliyapa”
In this article, I examine the discursive portrayals of gendered experience and subject positions through Sarjita Jain’s “Girliyapa,” an online entertainment channel (on YouTube) for female-oriented content in India. I demonstrate how the question of female pleasure that the channel repeatedly foregrounds by way of introducing relatively censored topics of discussion (such as girls buying condoms or articulating their orientation toward same-sex …
Satire, masculinity and the rhetoric of conflict resolution in War Chhod Na Yaar and Kya Dilli Kya Lahore
Unlike its western counterparts, Hindi war films constitute a rather peripheral genre, one that has understandably received scant critical attention over the last two decades. The conventional aesthetic registers and thematic templates of these films reveal an explicit engagement with questions relating to heroic masculinity, exceptional leadership and nationalist triumphalism. And yet, movies such as War Chhod Na Yaar (‘Quit the war, dude’) () a…
Premchand's shifting portrayals of womanhood in colonial North India
This article examines the nuanced and open-ended representations of women in the fictional works of Premchand, one of the most versatile and popular Urdu-Hindi writers of the 1920s and 1930s. By looking into a wide range of his writings, it argues that Premchand's literary engagement with the women's question cannot be summarily understood through such binaries as 'conservative' or 'liberal/radical'. While the virtuous and compliant woman is valo…
Premchand, nationalism and civil resistance in colonial North India
The theme of nationalism in the works of Premchand, the pre-eminent Urdu–Hindi writer of the 1920s and 1930s, not only serves as an organising principle but also constitutes a protean and contentious field of study, which has resulted in conflicting interpretations. On the one hand, his nationalist narratives are categorically denounced for their apparent lack of radicalism, while on the other hand, they are unequivocally valorised for their so-c…
Destigmatization of the fat female body in Size Zero and Dum Laga ke Haisha
This article examines the representation of the fat female body in two films, namely Inji Iduppazhagi (Size Zero, 2015) and Dum Laga ke Haisha (Give in All Your Energy, 2015). The author shows how fatness is alternatively reconfigured, in these two films, to foreground radical definitions of beauty, sexuality, romance, and body politics. The slim, curvaceous, and fair-complexioned female celebrity—an ideal that is constantly reiterated in South A…
What awakens the nation? The figure of the revolutionary in Inquilaab, Krantiveer and Rang de Basanti
The enduring popularity of Bhagat Singh and his comrades of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association reveals an overriding fascination with the figure of the nationalist revolutionary in India. This abiding interest finds expression not only in the Hindi novels of the post-Premchand era but also in the mainstream representations of Bollywood cinema. This article analyses the representation of the nationalist revolutionary in three films, na…
Disintegration of the Moral Economy in Gopinath Mohanty’s Paraja
This article suggests that the concept of the moral economy of the peasant, as defined by James C. Scott, in the context of Southeast Asia, provides a compelling theoretical framework through which one can examine Gopinath Mohanty’s novel Paraja (1945), 2 2 This article takes its cue from a brilliant article written by Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay in which he usefully employs the concept of moral economy to analyse the peasant narratives of Premchand.…
Conning the conmen
This article investigates the ostensibly paradoxical relationship that exists between the theme of excessive love, as suggested by the title of Abhishek Chaubey's film Dedh Ishqiya (2014), and the actual representation of it in the movie, which is not only restrained and disproportionate, but is also looked at with suspicion and contempt. It examines the logic of this seeming contradiction through the other two related themes that Chaubey's chef-…
A revolutionary history of interwar India
A revolutionary history of interwar India: violence, image, voice and text." Contemporary South Asia, 25(1), pp. 107–108
Premchand's Prose of Counter-Insurgency in Colonial North India
This article suggests that the prose of counter-insurgency, as defined by Ranajit Guha, serves as a theoretical yardstick against which Premchand's discourses about peasants can be measured. This is possible, however, only if Guha's scope is broadened beyond historiography to incorporate fictional as well as journalistic writings. For someone who represents the plight of the peasant with incisive historical accuracy, Premchand's implied correctiv…
Lesbian longings and the question of a queer repertoire in The “Other” Love Story
In recent years, there has been an emerging critical discourse in South Asia that examines the changing contours of representational politics that could, in turn, be strategically mobilized to introduce an alternative idiom of same-sex love within a standard template of heterosexual storytelling. This has been complemented by an evaluation of alternative modes of sexual politics that need not necessarily conform to Western labels or paradigms of …
Premchand, nationalism and civil resistance in colonial North India
The theme of nationalism in the works of Premchand, the pre-eminent Urdu–Hindi writer of the 1920s and 1930s, not only serves as an organising principle but also constitutes a protean and contentious field of study, which has resulted in conflicting interpretations. On the one hand, his nationalist narratives are categorically denounced for their apparent lack of radicalism, while on the other hand, they are unequivocally valorised for their so-c…
Conning the conmen
This article investigates the ostensibly paradoxical relationship that exists between the theme of excessive love, as suggested by the title of Abhishek Chaubey's film Dedh Ishqiya (2014), and the actual representation of it in the movie, which is not only restrained and disproportionate, but is also looked at with suspicion and contempt. It examines the logic of this seeming contradiction through the other two related themes that Chaubey's chef-…
Desecration of the fat Brahman in select fiction of Premchand
Premchand's Prose of Counter-Insurgency in Colonial North India
This article suggests that the prose of counter-insurgency, as defined by Ranajit Guha, serves as a theoretical yardstick against which Premchand's discourses about peasants can be measured. This is possible, however, only if Guha's scope is broadened beyond historiography to incorporate fictional as well as journalistic writings. For someone who represents the plight of the peasant with incisive historical accuracy, Premchand's implied correctiv…
Premchand's Prose of Counter-Insurgency in Colonial North India
This article suggests that the prose of counter-insurgency, as defined by Ranajit Guha, serves as a theoretical yardstick against which Premchand's discourses about peasants can be measured. This is possible, however, only if Guha's scope is broadened beyond historiography to incorporate fictional as well as journalistic writings. For someone who represents the plight of the peasant with incisive historical accuracy, Premchand's implied correctiv…
Disintegration of the Moral Economy in Gopinath Mohanty’s Paraja
This article suggests that the concept of the moral economy of the peasant, as defined by James C. Scott, in the context of Southeast Asia, provides a compelling theoretical framework through which one can examine Gopinath Mohanty’s novel Paraja (1945), 2 2 This article takes its cue from a brilliant article written by Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay in which he usefully employs the concept of moral economy to analyse the peasant narratives of Premchand.…
Conning the conmen
This article investigates the ostensibly paradoxical relationship that exists between the theme of excessive love, as suggested by the title of Abhishek Chaubey's film Dedh Ishqiya (2014), and the actual representation of it in the movie, which is not only restrained and disproportionate, but is also looked at with suspicion and contempt. It examines the logic of this seeming contradiction through the other two related themes that Chaubey's chef-…
A revolutionary history of interwar India
A revolutionary history of interwar India: violence, image, voice and text." Contemporary South Asia, 25(1), pp. 107–108
Destigmatization of the fat female body in Size Zero and Dum Laga ke Haisha
This article examines the representation of the fat female body in two films, namely Inji Iduppazhagi (Size Zero, 2015) and Dum Laga ke Haisha (Give in All Your Energy, 2015). The author shows how fatness is alternatively reconfigured, in these two films, to foreground radical definitions of beauty, sexuality, romance, and body politics. The slim, curvaceous, and fair-complexioned female celebrity—an ideal that is constantly reiterated in South A…
What awakens the nation? The figure of the revolutionary in Inquilaab, Krantiveer and Rang de Basanti
The enduring popularity of Bhagat Singh and his comrades of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association reveals an overriding fascination with the figure of the nationalist revolutionary in India. This abiding interest finds expression not only in the Hindi novels of the post-Premchand era but also in the mainstream representations of Bollywood cinema. This article analyses the representation of the nationalist revolutionary in three films, na…
Premchand, nationalism and civil resistance in colonial North India
The theme of nationalism in the works of Premchand, the pre-eminent Urdu–Hindi writer of the 1920s and 1930s, not only serves as an organising principle but also constitutes a protean and contentious field of study, which has resulted in conflicting interpretations. On the one hand, his nationalist narratives are categorically denounced for their apparent lack of radicalism, while on the other hand, they are unequivocally valorised for their so-c…
Satire, masculinity and the rhetoric of conflict resolution in War Chhod Na Yaar and Kya Dilli Kya Lahore
Unlike its western counterparts, Hindi war films constitute a rather peripheral genre, one that has understandably received scant critical attention over the last two decades. The conventional aesthetic registers and thematic templates of these films reveal an explicit engagement with questions relating to heroic masculinity, exceptional leadership and nationalist triumphalism. And yet, movies such as War Chhod Na Yaar (‘Quit the war, dude’) () a…
Premchand's shifting portrayals of womanhood in colonial North India
This article examines the nuanced and open-ended representations of women in the fictional works of Premchand, one of the most versatile and popular Urdu-Hindi writers of the 1920s and 1930s. By looking into a wide range of his writings, it argues that Premchand's literary engagement with the women's question cannot be summarily understood through such binaries as 'conservative' or 'liberal/radical'. While the virtuous and compliant woman is valo…
Female Pleasure and the Gender Politics of “Girliyapa”
In this article, I examine the discursive portrayals of gendered experience and subject positions through Sarjita Jain’s “Girliyapa,” an online entertainment channel (on YouTube) for female-oriented content in India. I demonstrate how the question of female pleasure that the channel repeatedly foregrounds by way of introducing relatively censored topics of discussion (such as girls buying condoms or articulating their orientation toward same-sex …
Fatness, girlhood, and self-acceptance in Gippi and Fanney Khan
This article explores the multiple discursive negotiations through which adolescent fat subjectivities are reconstituted in two films, namely Gippi (2013) and Fanney Khan (2018). Taking an intersectional approach between the fat acceptance movement and girlhood studies, it demonstrates how the female protagonists challenge, question, and eventually undermine the hitherto existing paradigms of corporeality in Hindi cinema. The fat female body that…
Lesbian longings and the question of a queer repertoire in The “Other” Love Story
In recent years, there has been an emerging critical discourse in South Asia that examines the changing contours of representational politics that could, in turn, be strategically mobilized to introduce an alternative idiom of same-sex love within a standard template of heterosexual storytelling. This has been complemented by an evaluation of alternative modes of sexual politics that need not necessarily conform to Western labels or paradigms of …
Rewriting Purushartha
This article investigates the implicit subtext of masculinity that undergirds Yashpal’s two-volume novel Jhutha Sach (The False Truth, 1958–1960), one of the most frequently sidestepped classics of Partition literature. It seeks to address the persistent scholarly amnesia that largely exists within the ever-expanding corpus of Partition Studies and which, more often than not, reveals an overwhelming preoccupation with questions relating to violen…
Strategic integration
In the dynamic contemporary business landscape, the convergence of technology, finance, and management plays a pivotal role in organizational success. This research explores the multifaceted realm of strategic integration, emphasizing the intricate balance between these domains. The background sets the stage, elucidating the historical evolution and growing relevance of this integration. Various research methodologies, including case studies, sur…
Desecration of the fat Brahman in select fiction of Premchand
From tales to transformation
Contemporary education faces a persistent gap between theoretical knowledge and its application in ethical reasoning, reflection, and real-world problem-solving. Although Action Learning (AL), developed by Reg Revans, emphasizes learning through action and questioning, its use remains largely confined to professional settings and lacks culturally meaningful frameworks for younger learners. This paper proposes the Pañcatantra-Action Learning (PAL)…
Discordant discourses
The 2008 Noida double murder of Aarushi Talwar and Hemraj Banjade can be understood as a curious amalgam of unsolvability, sensationalism, and moral polarization that defined post-millennial India. This article attempts a close reading of two Hindi films on the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case, namely Rahasya ( Mystery , 2015) and Talvar ( The Sword , 2015), using the insights of cultural criminology in order to understand the politics of interpretatio…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Art (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Literature (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works)