Articles

Articles in Books: 

• “The Desire for Cultural Studies” in Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies, (eds.) Meaghan Morris and Mette Hjort (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012).
• “Indian nationalism and Female Sexuality: A Trinidadian Tale”, in Sex and the citizen: interrogating the Caribbean, (ed.) Faith Smith (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011).
• “Hindi Cinema and Popular Music in Trinidad”, in Remembered Rhythms, (eds.) Shubha Chaudhuri and Anthony Seeger (Kolkata: Seagull Books, 2010).
• “Gender and the Media: Problems for Cultural History”, in Re-Figuring Culture: History, Theory and the Aesthetic in Contemporary India, (ed.) Satish Poduval (Delhi : Sahitya Akademi, 2005).
• “Vigilantism and the Pleasures of Masquerade: The Female Spectators of Vijayasanthi Films”, in City Flicks, (ed.) Preben Kaarsholm(Roskilde University: Occasional Paper Series, 2002).
• “Nationalism Refigured: Contemporary South Indian Cinema and the Subject of Feminism”, in Community, Gender and Violence: Subaltern Studies XI, (eds.) Partha Chatterjee and Pradeep Jeganathan (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2000).
• (with Vivek Dhareshwar), “Kaadalan and the Politics of Resignification”, in Making Meaning in Indian Cinema, (ed.) Ravi Vasudevan (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000).
• “‘Left to the Imagination’: Indian Nationalisms and Female Sexuality in Trinidad“, in A Question of Silence? The Sexual Economies of Modern India, (eds.) Mary E. John and Janaki Nair (Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998).
• “Questions for Cultural Politics”, in Subject to Change: Teaching Literature in the Nineties, (ed.) Susie Tharu (Delhi: Orient Longman, 1998).
• (with Susie Tharu) “Problems for a Contemporary Theory of Gender“, in Subaltern Studies IX, (eds.) Shahid Amin and Dipesh Chakrabarty (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996)
• “Colonialism and the Politics of Translation“, in An Other Tongue: Nation and Ethnicity in the Linguistic Borderlands, (ed.) Alfred Arteaga (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994).
• “Colonialism and the Aesthetics of Translation“, in Interrogating Modernity: Culture and Colonialism in India, (eds.) Tejaswini Niranjana, P. Sudhir and Vivek Dhareshwar (Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1993).
• “Whose Culture is It? Contesting the Modern“, in A Way of Leaving So As To Stay, Essays in Honour of S.Viswanathan, (eds.) S.Marathe et al. (Madras: T.R.Publications, 1993).
• “‘History, Really Beginning’: Compulsions of Post-colonial Pedagogy“, in The Lie of the Land: English Literary Studies in India, ed. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan (Delhi: Oxford University Press).
• “Translation, Colonialism, and the Rise of English“, in Rethinking English: Essays in Literature, Language, History, (ed.) Svati Joshi (Delhi: Duke University Press).

Journal Articles:

• “DEEWAANA (the mad one): the lover of music” Cultural Studies, 33:5 (2018), 1-29.
• “Musicophilia and the Lingua Musica in Mumbai”, Cultural Studies, 32:2 (2017), 261-85.
• (with Nitya Vasudevan), “The Re-organisation of Desire: Cultural Lives of Young Women in Globalising India”, Economic and Political Weekly, 51:14 (2016), 70- 78.
• “Majority in the Margins? The Case for Bilingual Pedagogy”, Education at the Crossroads, India International Centre Quarterly, 42:3/4 (2015), 195-206.
• “English Education in the Multi-lingual Classroom”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 16:2 (2015), 282-288.
• “Culture, Feminism, Globalization”, Introduction to Special Issue-Women’s Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, 50:17 (2015), 45-47.
• “Music in the Balance: Language, Modernity and Hindustani Sangeet in Dharwad”, Economic and Political Weekly, XLVIII: 2 (2013), 41–48.
• “Why Culture Matters: Rethinking the Language of Feminist Politics”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 11:2 (2010), 229–235.
• “Transported by Song: Music and Cultural Labour in Dharwad”, Sangeet Natak, XLIII:2 (2009), 35–44.
• “Teaching Gender Studies as Cultural Studies”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 9:3 (2008), 469 – 477.
• “Feminism and Cultural Studies in Asia”, Interventions, 9:2 (2007), 209–18.
• (with Sanghamitra Mishra), “Thinking through Region”, Economic and Political Weekly, 40:44-45 (2005), 4674-4678.
• “Alternative Frames? Questions for Comparative Research in the Third World”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 1:1 (2000), 97-108.
• “Reworking Masculinities: Rajkumar and the Kannada Public Sphere”, Economic and Political Weekly, 47:47 (2000), 4147-4150.
• “Questions for Feminist Film Studies”, Journal of the Moving Image, 1:1 (1999), 91-101.
• “’Left to the Imagination’: Indian Nationalisms and Female Sexuality in Trinidad”, Public Culture 11:1 (1999), 223-243.
• (with Mary E.John), “Mirror Politics: Fire, Hindutva and Indian Culture”, Economic and Political Weekly, 34:10-1 (1999), 581-84.
• “’Left to the Imagination’: Indian Nationalisms and Female Sexuality in Trinidad”, Small Axe 2, (1997), 1-18.
• (with S.V.Srinivas) “Managing the Crisis: Bharateeyudu and the Ambivalence of Being ‘Indian‘”, Economic and Political Weekly, 19:3 (1997), 111-127.
• (with Vivek Dhareshwar) “Kaadalan and the Politics of Resignification: Fashion, Violence and the Body“, Journal of Arts and Ideas (1996), 5- 26.
• “Banning Bombayi: Nationalism, Communalism and Gender“, Economic and Political Weekly, 30:22 (1995), 1291-1292.
• “Gravity of the State“, Economic and Political Weekly, 29:44 (1994), 2883-2884.
• “Roja Revisited“, Economic and Political Weekly (1994), 1299-1299.
• (with Susie Tharu) “Problems for a Contemporary Theory of Gender“, Social Scientist, 22:3-4 (1994), 93-117.
• “Integrating Whose Nation? Tourists and Terrorists in Roja“, Economic and Political Weekly, 29:3 (1994), 79-82.
• “Whose Culture is it? Contesting the Modern“, Journal of Arts and Ideas, 25-26(1993), 139-51.
• “Cinema, Femininity and the Economy of Consumption“, Economic and Political Weekly 26:43 (1991), WS85-WS86.
• “Deconstructing Allegory: Reading Paul de Man“, Indian Journal of American Studies, 19:1-2 (1989), 93-98.
• “Translation, Colonialism and the Rise of English“, Economic and Political Weekly, 25:15 (1990), 773-779.
• “Representation, History and the Case of Translation“, Journal of Arts and Ideas, 17-18 (1989), 109-116.