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Education:
Ph. D : 2001,
Centre for
Political
Studies, School
of Social
Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New
Delhi. Thesis
on: Personality
Cult in Tamil
Nadu Politics: A
Study of the
Culture of
Dravidian
Parties.
M.Phil : 1992-94
Political
Studies, Centre
for Political
Studies, School
of Social
Sciences,
Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New
Delhi.
Dissertation on:
Film and
Politics of
Tamil Nadu: A
Study of Fan
Clubs.
Areas of
Research
My long-term
research
interest has
been on the
"Political
Economy of Tamil
Film Industry".
Besides, I focus
on boarder
issues of
Political
Theory,
Political
Culture,
Dravidian
Politics,
Subordinated
Social
Groups/movements
and Media/
Cultural
studies.
Selected
Publications
"The Culture of
Populism in
Tamil Nadu",
Journal of the
Social Reality,
JNU, New Delhi,
Vol.1, No.2,
Nov-Dec. 1994.
"Dalit's
Identity: A
Historical
Perspective",
Journal of
Economic News
and Views, New
Delhi, l.2,
No.5, Jan 1-15,
1995.
"Fan Clubs
Network of Film
Stars and Tamil
Politics",
Mainstream, New
Delhi, May 4,
1996.
"Need for
Intellectual
Persistence" in
Journal of The
Third Concept,
Special issue
for 50th year of
India?s
Independence,
September -
1997,
"Political
Parties Blind to
Dalit Concerns",
The Times of
India, New
Delhi, 22
April,1998.
"Review the
Spirit-Not the
Letter", Periyar
Era, August,
1998, Chennai.
"Activating
Social Capital
for Dalit
Identity" in Dr.
Ambrose Pinto?s
(ed.) volume of
Assertion Dalit
identity, 1999,
Indian Social
Institute, New
Delhi.
"Symbiotic
Culture of
Religion and
Politics in
Tamil Nadu", in
Inukonda
Thirumali,
(ed.), South
India: Regions,
Culture and
Sagas, 2004,
Bibliomatrix,
New Delhi,
pp.95-103.
"Out-Caste", a
book review:
Growing Up
Untouchable in
India: A Dalit
Autobiography of
Vasant Moon,
Translated from
the Marathi by
Gail Omvedt and
Introduction by
Eleanor Zelliot,
2002, Vistaar
Publications,
New Delhi.
Economic and
Political
Weekly, November
29, 2003.
"Dalit
Masculinities in
Social Science
Research:
Revisiting a
Tamil Village",
Economic and
Political
Weekly, March 6,
2004.
Current Research
Work
Currently, I
have undertaken,
in collaboration
with Prof. John
Sinclair,
Victoria
University,
Melbourne, a
study on
"Television,
Globalization
and Social
Change in
India". The data
collection is
completed and a
draft report has
been submitted.
Based on the
research
findings, we are
working on a
joint paper on
the same theme.
Further, I am
working on
Corporate Social
Responsibility
and the
extension of
Reservation for
the Dalits (SCs/STs)
in Private
Sector. Beside,
(a) I would be
finishing a
Working Paper on
Dialectics of
Indian
Democracy:
Political
Development and
Culture; (b) I
am also revising
my doctoral
thesis entitled:
"Personality
Cult in Tamil Nadu Politics: A
Study of the
Culture of the
Dravidian
Parties", for
publication by
the end of 2005.
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