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Offshore Matters: Emotional Labour in India’s Call Center Documentaries

December 26, 2023

While complaints about the industry’s orchestration of emotions and personality were commonplace, some workers also celebrated the prerogative of assembling new identities (58). Moreover, their exposure to Western cultural habits[…]

Colonialism · Documentaries · India

Itinerant Maps: Sapna Moti Bhavnani’s Sindhustan Reimagines Partition History

June 13, 2023

The film reimagines mapmaking as a self-reflective and relational drawing practice manifesting in myriad narratives on the filmmaker’s skin. Bhavnani initiates a participatory process as she situates her tattooed designs[…]

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