Seminar: The Lunchbox

This pre-film seminar will discuss idioms of love and desire in new Indian cinema and the relationship of cinematic realism to more widely-known Bollywood aesthetics. 

ABOUT ULKA ANJARIA 

Ulka Anjaria is professor of English and director of the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University, with research specialties in South Asian literature and film, realism and the global novel. She is the author of Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form (2012), Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture (2019), and Understanding Bollywood: The Grammar of Hindi Cinema (2021). She is the editor of A History of the Indian Novel in English (2015) and co-editor (with Anjali Nerlekar) of Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures (2024).