Rajorshi Das
Biographic Data
| ID | 834523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajorshi Das |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajorshi |
| FAMILY NAME | Das |
| SIGNATURE | DAS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Women's Policy Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7062-1556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Queer Acts and Caste Hegemony
Jai Hijra, Jai Jai Hijra
This article focuses on the 2015 Telangana Queer Swabhimana Walk to explore the relationality of trans activism to questions of culture and region. Documented by Moses Tulasi's film, Walking the Walk (2015), this pride march can be read as a site of decolonial theory-making that reorients the gaze of the mainstream public to hijra and other trans people's historic attachment to land and their fight for justice. The article employs podcast intervi…
Home, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Shyam Selvadurai’s The Hungry Ghosts
This paper explores the ways in which Shyam Selvadurai's The Hungry Ghosts (2013) conforms to the national underpinnings of the Sri Lankan and by extension South Asian diaspora while simultaneously choosing mourning over rage as a way of living together. In his overt reliance on a mythical structure and Buddhist philosophy, the author betrays the entry of the homonational body as an ideal citizen within the complex geopolitical aspirations of Sou…
Jai Hijra, Jai Jai Hijra
This article focuses on the 2015 Telangana Queer Swabhimana Walk to explore the relationality of trans activism to questions of culture and region. Documented by Moses Tulasi's film, Walking the Walk (2015), this pride march can be read as a site of decolonial theory-making that reorients the gaze of the mainstream public to hijra and other trans people's historic attachment to land and their fight for justice. The article employs podcast intervi…
Home, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Shyam Selvadurai’s The Hungry Ghosts
This paper explores the ways in which Shyam Selvadurai's The Hungry Ghosts (2013) conforms to the national underpinnings of the Sri Lankan and by extension South Asian diaspora while simultaneously choosing mourning over rage as a way of living together. In his overt reliance on a mythical structure and Buddhist philosophy, the author betrays the entry of the homonational body as an ideal citizen within the complex geopolitical aspirations of Sou…
Queer Acts and Caste Hegemony
Jai Hijra, Jai Jai Hijra
This article focuses on the 2015 Telangana Queer Swabhimana Walk to explore the relationality of trans activism to questions of culture and region. Documented by Moses Tulasi's film, Walking the Walk (2015), this pride march can be read as a site of decolonial theory-making that reorients the gaze of the mainstream public to hijra and other trans people's historic attachment to land and their fight for justice. The article employs podcast intervi…
Political science (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (2 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Buddhism (1 works) · Caste (1 works)