Vinod Balakrishnan
Biographic Data
| ID | 7499319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vinod Balakrishnan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vinod |
| FAMILY NAME | Balakrishnan |
| SIGNATURE | BALAKRISHNAN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Somaesthetics of Bharatanāṭyam
This interview contains insights into the journey of an artist as a practitioner, and a performer of the Indian classical dance Bharatanāṭyam. Discussing the philosophical, spiritual and somatic dimensions of the dance, the artist elaborates on the role of the performing soma as the medium of communication in the classical dance form, and the importance of practice in preparing the soma for the effective embodiment of emotions.Smt. Vrinda Ramanan…
Draped Identities
Representation of Native Crowd in Alice Perrin’s Short Stories
The paper locates Alice Perrin’s short stories within the historical and literary contexts of the British Raj period and examines the representation of native crowds in order to understand India as a site of Anglo-Indian anxieties even during the period of “high imperialism” of the British Raj. Investigating her stories through the lens of the pragmatic theories of Elias Canetti, Le Bon Gustave, William Reddy, and Ann Laura Stoler, the paper demo…
Laughing Online
This paper investigates spectator dynamics in the offline and online performances of stand-up comedians, Vir Das and Kenny Sebastian. It studies the performer–comedian relationship through the media theory of John Fiske and John Hartley, the Rasa Box of Richard Schechner and Group Phenomenon of psychology. Media and performance aspects, such as stage setting, lighting, script, identity, complaisance and techniques, are theorised to arrive at insi…
Positioning the Gendered Subaltern
The postcolonial theory locates subaltern women as ‘doubly effaced’ and distanced from achieving agency to speak and participate in resistance. Due to her diversified colonized identity, much of the critical thought does not see any possibility for subaltern women participating in resistance. This line of argument implies a critical space in which the engagement with problematics inevitably leaves out subaltern women in the emergent resistance di…
Theorizing the Experience of Travel in the Film North 24 Kaatham
There are two spaces in Anil Radhakrishnan's travel narrative, North 24 Kaatham (2013), the topographical space outside and the psychological space inside. The film is read as a dialectical tension that plays out in the character of Harikrishnan who suffers from an obsessive compulsive disorder. The fateful journey of Harikrishnan on a day of harthal (general strike) is, to all appearance, topographical though it is, in equal measure, a psycholog…
Historicising the Banal
This paper examines media representation and its role in manifesting a banal rhetoric that compels a subnational discourse to emerge from the quotidian. The everyday discrimination experienced by the people of India’s North-East, who migrate and live in the metropolitan cities of India, exacerbates a rupture with the sign of national pedagogy, the constitution. The national discourse simultaneously appropriates these banal fractures, rendering th…
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Historicising the Banal
This paper examines media representation and its role in manifesting a banal rhetoric that compels a subnational discourse to emerge from the quotidian. The everyday discrimination experienced by the people of India’s North-East, who migrate and live in the metropolitan cities of India, exacerbates a rupture with the sign of national pedagogy, the constitution. The national discourse simultaneously appropriates these banal fractures, rendering th…
Positioning the Gendered Subaltern
The postcolonial theory locates subaltern women as ‘doubly effaced’ and distanced from achieving agency to speak and participate in resistance. Due to her diversified colonized identity, much of the critical thought does not see any possibility for subaltern women participating in resistance. This line of argument implies a critical space in which the engagement with problematics inevitably leaves out subaltern women in the emergent resistance di…
Theorizing the Experience of Travel in the Film North 24 Kaatham
There are two spaces in Anil Radhakrishnan's travel narrative, North 24 Kaatham (2013), the topographical space outside and the psychological space inside. The film is read as a dialectical tension that plays out in the character of Harikrishnan who suffers from an obsessive compulsive disorder. The fateful journey of Harikrishnan on a day of harthal (general strike) is, to all appearance, topographical though it is, in equal measure, a psycholog…
Laughing Online
This paper investigates spectator dynamics in the offline and online performances of stand-up comedians, Vir Das and Kenny Sebastian. It studies the performer–comedian relationship through the media theory of John Fiske and John Hartley, the Rasa Box of Richard Schechner and Group Phenomenon of psychology. Media and performance aspects, such as stage setting, lighting, script, identity, complaisance and techniques, are theorised to arrive at insi…
Representation of Native Crowd in Alice Perrin’s Short Stories
The paper locates Alice Perrin’s short stories within the historical and literary contexts of the British Raj period and examines the representation of native crowds in order to understand India as a site of Anglo-Indian anxieties even during the period of “high imperialism” of the British Raj. Investigating her stories through the lens of the pragmatic theories of Elias Canetti, Le Bon Gustave, William Reddy, and Ann Laura Stoler, the paper demo…
Somaesthetics of Bharatanāṭyam
This interview contains insights into the journey of an artist as a practitioner, and a performer of the Indian classical dance Bharatanāṭyam. Discussing the philosophical, spiritual and somatic dimensions of the dance, the artist elaborates on the role of the performing soma as the medium of communication in the classical dance form, and the importance of practice in preparing the soma for the effective embodiment of emotions.Smt. Vrinda Ramanan…
Draped Identities
Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (3 works) · Law (2 works)