Hello! This is my third and final blog update on the summer research I am conducting with Professor Ramya Sreenivasan. I am excited to conclude the work we have been doing together, as well as continue to support the research in the fall semester. Over the course of this summer, I have watched and developed […]

Hello again! This is my second blog update on the summer research I am conducting with Professor Ramya Sreenivasan on early Hindi cinema and the emergence of mass culture in India. So far, it has been an amazing experience! I started with films from the late 1940s and am slowly making my way through the […]

Hi! My name is Akhil Vaidya, and I am an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania studying at the Annenberg School of Communication. I am originally from a suburb outside of Atlanta, Georgia, but I will be conducting research from my apartment in West Philadelphia this summer. As a senior, I am excited to […]