Sudhir Mahadevan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5840867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sudhir Mahadevan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sudhir |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahadevan |
| SIGNATURE | MAHADEVAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | SRM Institute of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6534-5259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Constructing Silence, Reclaiming Voice
This paper offers a critical reading of Meena Kandasamy’s When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife through the dual frameworks of social constructionism and postcolonial feminist theory. Often classified as a testimonial narrative of domestic abuse, the novel is reinterpreted here as a trenchant critique of the ideological structures—marriage, nationhood, and language—that construct and constrain female subjectivity in postcol…
The Hive and the Pod
This ecocritical analysis of Laline Paull’s The Bees (2014) and Pod (2022) employs Greg Garrard’s framework of environmental dualisms and Rob Nixon’s concept of slow violence (Nixon, 2011) to interrogate how nonhuman narrators expose the entangled ecological, social, and spiritual crises of the Anthropocene. Through close reading and interdisciplinary synthesis, the study demonstrates how Paull’s fiction reframes industrial agriculture and marine…
Obsolescence
Badnam Basti (1971)
Badnam Basti (Prem Kapoor, 1971) has a legendary reputation as a lost queer classic from India. The movie was located at the Arsenal Film Archive in Berlin in late 2019 and has been seen by a wider audience only a few times (all online). This essay offers a close analysis of the movie. I argue that Badnam Basti depicts a distinctly local and regional culture of North-Indian homosociality in which the movie’s same-sex relation is only one componen…
The poetics of Indian cinema
This dossier is concerned with the ‘poetics’ of Indian cinema, in relation both to a single work and to the use of certain devices and stylistic features across a range of works. It uses the term in the sense elaborated by David Bordwell when he suggests a distinction between ‘method’ and ‘poetics’. Rather than drawing on a distinct critical school and its own doctrinal procedures for interpreting textual features, Bordwell notes that the poetics…
Bollywood in the Age of New Media
Anustup Basu's book is a theorization of the mainstream Hindi cinema that emerged between roughly 1991 and 2004. Hindi films blend an assortment of local and international genres (spaghetti Western plus mythological plus action), dramaturgical modes (action, melodrama, comedy), song–dance sequences, aesthetic systems, even seemingly incommensurable epistemes, in what the film industry itself calls the ‘masala film’ – the word ‘masala’ denoting a …
Badnam Basti (1971)
Badnam Basti (Prem Kapoor, 1971) has a legendary reputation as a lost queer classic from India. The movie was located at the Arsenal Film Archive in Berlin in late 2019 and has been seen by a wider audience only a few times (all online). This essay offers a close analysis of the movie. I argue that Badnam Basti depicts a distinctly local and regional culture of North-Indian homosociality in which the movie’s same-sex relation is only one componen…
Bollywood in the Age of New Media
Anustup Basu's book is a theorization of the mainstream Hindi cinema that emerged between roughly 1991 and 2004. Hindi films blend an assortment of local and international genres (spaghetti Western plus mythological plus action), dramaturgical modes (action, melodrama, comedy), song–dance sequences, aesthetic systems, even seemingly incommensurable epistemes, in what the film industry itself calls the ‘masala film’ – the word ‘masala’ denoting a …
The poetics of Indian cinema
This dossier is concerned with the ‘poetics’ of Indian cinema, in relation both to a single work and to the use of certain devices and stylistic features across a range of works. It uses the term in the sense elaborated by David Bordwell when he suggests a distinction between ‘method’ and ‘poetics’. Rather than drawing on a distinct critical school and its own doctrinal procedures for interpreting textual features, Bordwell notes that the poetics…
Obsolescence
Badnam Basti (1971)
Badnam Basti (Prem Kapoor, 1971) has a legendary reputation as a lost queer classic from India. The movie was located at the Arsenal Film Archive in Berlin in late 2019 and has been seen by a wider audience only a few times (all online). This essay offers a close analysis of the movie. I argue that Badnam Basti depicts a distinctly local and regional culture of North-Indian homosociality in which the movie’s same-sex relation is only one componen…
The Hive and the Pod
This ecocritical analysis of Laline Paull’s The Bees (2014) and Pod (2022) employs Greg Garrard’s framework of environmental dualisms and Rob Nixon’s concept of slow violence (Nixon, 2011) to interrogate how nonhuman narrators expose the entangled ecological, social, and spiritual crises of the Anthropocene. Through close reading and interdisciplinary synthesis, the study demonstrates how Paull’s fiction reframes industrial agriculture and marine…
Constructing Silence, Reclaiming Voice
This paper offers a critical reading of Meena Kandasamy’s When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife through the dual frameworks of social constructionism and postcolonial feminist theory. Often classified as a testimonial narrative of domestic abuse, the novel is reinterpreted here as a trenchant critique of the ideological structures—marriage, nationhood, and language—that construct and constrain female subjectivity in postcol…
Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Movie theater (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Hindi (2 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works)