Amit S Rai: 2 books
Untimely Bollywood
Globalization and India’s New Media Assemblage
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
Known for its elaborate spectacle of music, dance, costumes, and fantastical story lines, Bollywood cinema is a genre that foregrounds narrative rupture, indeterminacy, and bodily sensation. In Untimely Bollywood, Amit S. Rai argues that the fast-paced, multivalent qualities of contemporary Bollywood...
Jugaad Time
Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
In India, the practice of jugaad—finding workarounds or hacks to solve problems—emerged out of subaltern strategies of negotiating poverty, discrimination, and violence but is now celebrated in management literature as a disruptive innovation. In Jugaad Time Amit S. Rai explores how jugaad operates...