With the help of a learner corpus of academic writing (LCAW) which was collected over a period of three years from the undergraduate preparatory year students in Saudi Arabia, we have attempted to understand the use of AWL ...

Lexical bundles are important in structuring ideas, establishing links within the discourse and expressing the stance of the writers. This study attempts to understand the use of lexical bundles in student writing through ...

Documentary filmmaker Sanjay Kak discusses his earlier films, the development of his politicalconsciousness and on-screen engagement with Kashmir. Documentary film in India has transformed from primarilybeing a medium for ...

In this paper I explore the role that early Malayalam cinema played in the consolidation of a nascent Malayali linguistic identity. The paper examines the nationalist address that Malayalam cinema adopted as part of its ...

Situating the Malayalam film Amma Ariyan in the context of radical Left politics in Kerala during the “long 1970s”, this paper argues that Left-wing cultural productions during the period offered a melancholic vision of ...

The right of single unwed mothers in India has not only been a widely debated topic but is also situated at the core of gender equality. Scholars have discussed the positionality of single unwed mothers in Indian society ...

Affordances offered by new media platforms are perceived as revolutionary instruments for removing the inequities of access to health promotion and communication. However, the production and dissemination of health promotional ...

Popular Hindi cinema in India has come a long way in portraying women. From the 1910s, when male actors used to play heroine characters, to the 1950s, when female actors started playing lead roles, women’s depiction has ...

This chapter shows how the formal participation of men and women in a community-based forest management project shapes and is shaped by informal practices. The gender analysis is based on an ethnographic case study of a ...