Yamini Krishna

Yamini Krishna is a film studies and urban studies researcher; she currently teaches at the FLAME University.

The After-Lives of Historical Figures in the ‘Pan-Indian’ Telugu Film

by Yamini Krishna | Articles, Many Worlds of the Deccan

Contemporary film history of the Telugu people has at least one instance of a hyper masculine superhuman celluloid figure that appears time after time to establish territorial order: Alluri Sitarama Raju. The source for this celluloid figure was the leader of what...

Search for the past: Stories from the dusty archives of the Deccan

by Yamini Krishna | Identity and Belonging in the Deccan

As I sifted through some administrative reports of the Asaf Jahi state at the Telangana State Archives in Hyderabad, the archivist/official, a very patient man, sat there trying to match the details written on a small piece of white paper with the endless lists from a...