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indian cinema

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A weathered Indian street wall layered with printed posters, a bicycle propped against it

Behavioral ScienceJuly 19, 20266 min readEvergreen

Fandom With a Party Office

Psychologists can measure celebrity worship on a scale, and in a representative sample only about 4.5% reach the high-intensity level. What makes Tamil Nadu distinctive isn't more intense fandom — it's that the fan clubs were organised into electoral machinery.

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A gopuram at the Meenakshi temple in Madurai, densely covered with painted sculpted figures

Behavioral ScienceJanuary 14, 20269 min read

Sanskritization on Screen

Explore how Indian films often reframe Adivasi and Dalit-Bahujan cultures as Hindu traditions, a process termed "Sanskritization." This erases real histories and promotes an upper-caste friendly national fantasy.

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