In an age of social media and reality television, reading and
consumption habits in India now demand homegrown pulp fictions.
Ulka Anjaria categorizes post-2000 Indian literature and popular
culture as constituting "the contemporary," a movement defined by
new and experimental forms-where high- and low-brow meet, and
genres break down. Reading India Now studies the implications of
this developing trend as both the right-wing resurges and
marginalized voices find expression. Anjaria explores the fiction
of Chetan Bhagat and Anuja Chauhan as well as Aamir Khan's
television talk show, Satyamev Jayate, plus the work of
documentarian Paromita Vohra, to argue how different kinds of texts
are involved in imagining new political futures for an India in
transition. Contemporary literature and popular culture in India
might seem artless and capitalistic, but it is precisely its
openness to the world outside that allows these new works to offer
significant insight into the experiences and sensibilities of
contemporary India.
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