Publisher's Synopsis
Based upon experience of lecturing in popular culture and publishing on society, cinema and gender, this book contains an analysis of Indian masculinities and seeks to answer a question that has grown out of current cultural conversation: What is the Indian male? In the west, writing on masculinity is becoming as widespread and popular as feminist writing. Yet in India, this is new and unchartered territory waiting to be explored. Similar to the country he inhabits, the Indian male is rapidly changing. India is often described as a land of controls, and nobody embodies so many contradictions as the men found here. Like the demon king Ravana, masculinity wears at least ten heads. Through Bollywood, literature, the media and theatre, the essays in this book examine how popular culture impacts masculinities in their numerous forms.
