As cinema halls in Kerala emerge as sites of pandemic control, Bindu Menon explores a longer history of how moralized notions of public health and contagion played out in Kerala’s cinema halls, and through film as medium.
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A Kerala Studies Blog
As cinema halls in Kerala emerge as sites of pandemic control, Bindu Menon explores a longer history of how moralized notions of public health and contagion played out in Kerala’s cinema halls, and through film as medium.
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Read moreS. Harikrishnan explores why the imagery and language used to popularise measures necessary for tackling the coronavirus pandemic have sparked attempts to peddle ‘scientific reasons’ for untouchability.
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