Navigating the film-industry: Interview with Mr. Natarajan Ramji, Chairman and Managing Director, Travel Master’s India on what it means to be a location scout in India

Nanjangud, Apoorva

doi:10.1080/14746689.2021.1940557

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“…The report mentions the Popular Front of India (PFI), a Muslim student group that has a presence mainly in Southern India, and which has come under significant scrutiny for its ‘radicalism’ and suspected connection with forced conversions (“Shahan Sha A vs State Of Kerala,” 2009). The PFI was banned by the Indian government in September 2022 from continuing its activities for at least five years, after raids carried out by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Enforcement Directorate, who have argued that the organisation is radicalising youth, towards violence (Natarajan and Ali, 2022). Crucially for this paper, the PFI has been widely linked within popular Hindu Nationalist discourse with a concerted programme of ‘Love Jihad’.…”

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Carceral domesticities and the geopolitics of Love Jihad

Krishnan

2023

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Religious conversion and marriage across communal lines have long been contentious in India. The contemporary debate on ‘Love Jihad’ – the Hindu Nationalist conspiracy theory that accuses Muslim men of waging a religious war by seducing and converting unsuspecting Hindu brides – exemplifies the simultaneously geopolitical and biopolitical anxiety that religious conversion inspires. In this paper, I focus on the case of Hadiya, a young woman from Kerala, who, in 2016, found herself remanded first to her university’s hostel – as dormitories are called in India – and then to her parents’ home as various courts debated on the authenticity of her conversion to Islam, and her marriage to a Muslim partner. Through an examination of media discourse and court records in this case, the paper argues that in ‘Love Jihad’, the domestic and the carceral are rendered inextricably intertwined through an affective politics that presents desire outside the bounds of caste and religion as geopolitically misoriented. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s work on the phenomenology of orientation, I focus on the intimate geographies of the hostel, which I argue exemplifies a site of carceral convergence between nation and family, in the management of the affective disorder associated with religious conversion.

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Carceral domesticities and the geopolitics of Love Jihad

Krishnan

2023

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Navigating the film-industry: Interview with Mr. Natarajan Ramji, Chairman and Managing Director, Travel Master’s India on what it means to be a location scout in India

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Carceral domesticities and the geopolitics of Love Jihad

Carceral domesticities and the geopolitics of Love Jihad

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