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Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Ashish Rajadhyaksha is an independent scholar. While most of his writings are on film, he has also researched and written extensively on India’s digitization initiatives, most recently In the Wake of Aadhaar: the Digital Ecosystem of Governance in India (2013).
It was the maelstrom among the 1970s generation of students at the Film and Television Institute of India that could yield an epic like ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron’.
As autonomous ‘citizens’ capable of acting on the responsibilities that go with Constitutional rights have been technologically replaced by populations to be ‘managed’, what we see is the populist…