

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">What do the 
TV shows we are watching tell
us about ourselves? Television is the single most powerful and dynamic 
agent of
change in India today. It is also the country^s most popular and 
accessible
form of entertainment. Remote Control examines three kinds of 
programming 24x7
news, soap operas, and reality shows that have changed Indian television
 forever
and analyzes how these three genres while drawing on different sources, 
are
hybridized, indigenized, and manage to ultimately project a 
distinctively Indian
identity. Shoma Munshi^s book shows us how everyday reality in India in 
the twenty-first century shapes television and how television in turn 
shapes us. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">About
the Author</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Shoma
Munshi</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> is a Professor of Anthropology at the
American University of Kuwait and a Senior Research Partner at the Max Planck
Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen Germany.
She is the author of Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian television editor of
images of the ‘Modern Woman’ in Asia, global media, local meanings, and
co-editor of media, war and terrorism, responses from Middle East Asia, in
addition to authoring several articles in refereed journals.</span></p>

