Srirupa Chatterjee and Shweta Rao Garg, ed. Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture . Temple University Press, 2024 Book review by Debadrita Saha, Ashoka University The economic liberalisation of India in 1991 “transformed its economic policies from the erstwhile License Raj, or the control economy”, to embrace laissez-faire capitalism (Garg 234). Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture ,

MISSION: Explore academically topics in commercial music in popular culture in the United States of America, Canada, México, South America, and Europe in the early to mid-twentieth century through critical inquiries into popular music, visual culture, cinema, radio, magazines, material culture, commerce, and tourism studies. View brief Information video: HERE . EVENT FORMAT: Original papers welcome on any topic within the scope and focus of this online conference. Paper prese

Interview by Hannah Sophie Schiffner    Giacomo Calabria, writing under the pseudonym “Jacopo della Quercia,” is an award-winning educator, essayist, novelist, and taught as a scholar with Humanities New York across a decade.  His novels include License to Quill , “a James Bond-esque spy thriller starring William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe during history’s real life Gunpowder Plot,” and The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy , a “historical thriller” with

Marie Buscatto, Sari Karttunen, and Mathilde Provansal, ed.  Gender-Based Violence in Arts and Culture: Perspectives on Education and Work . Open Book Publishers, 2025.   Book review by Debadrita Saha, Ashoka University   In the aftermath of the #MeToo movement in the Hollywood film industry, the origins of which can be traced to the exposure of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual crimes by women survivors in October 2017, artistic and cultural sectors across the world faced a reckonin