by Amy Phua | Aug 15, 2022 | Articles, Many Worlds of the Deccan
Has Rap Found its Home in the Deccan? The Deccan is a place of unlikely arrivals and departures – cultural practices from every possible region of the world have found home here and gotten reinterpreted and gifted back to other regions. One such recent arrival is hip...
by Karthik Venkatesh | Aug 15, 2022 | Articles, Many Worlds of the Deccan
A God, A Pirate and the Birth of a New Urban Religion in the Deccan The Ayyappa Temple at Sabarimala is an extremely popular one. Located in the Periyar Tiger Reserve in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta district, it has also been the subject of much controversy on account of...
by Yamini Krishna | Aug 7, 2022 | Articles, Many Worlds of the Deccan
The After-Lives of Historical Figures in the ‘Pan-Indian’ Telugu Film 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...
by Sasi Kiran | Aug 6, 2022 | Articles, Many Worlds of the Deccan
Telugu Modernity and the Curious Case of Enlightened Privilege The turn of the 20th century was an enormously productive period in publishing in Indian languages. Although prose publication for non-scholarly readers began as early as 1875, closely followed by the...
by Swathi Shivanand | Aug 6, 2022 | Articles, Many Worlds of the Deccan
The Mulki and the Mulk: How Belonging Is Layered in the Deccan With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) trying to make inroads into the electoral landscape of Telangana, derogatory references to the Nizams of the Asaf Jahi dynasty abound. The character assassinations had...
by Chinmay Dharukar | Aug 6, 2022 | Articles, Many Worlds of the Deccan
The Uncanny Sisterhood of Deccan’s Languages ‘Pora khaalli? (Have the children eaten?)’ These are two utterances in Marathi spoken in Osmanabad and Solapur districts. But a speaker of Marathi from the central or western parts of Maharashtra may be perplexed at what is...
