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Seema Chishti, Sumitra and Anees: Tales and Recipes from a Khichdi Family. Harper Collins, 2022, 189 pp., ₹399 (Paperback). ISBN:978-93-5489-588-3.

This book presents a critical analysis of sense-making practices through an exploration of acoustic, creative, and artistic spaces. It studies how local cultures of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are impacted by global discourses and media, such as television, popular music, digital media, and literature. The authors look at sense-making practices and spatial discourses through an interconnected discussion on thought and experience that seeks to present a multidimensional cartography of the global, the local, and the glocal, to closely analyze the phenomenon of globalization. The volume is an investigation of the possibilities of alternate, sustainable modes of being and existing in a world which requires a unified, ethical, biopolitical worldview that challenges the disparity of its fragments while speculating on their synesthetic conditionality. A unique contribution, the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English literature, media studies, cultural studies, literary cultures, post-colonial studies, globalization studies, philosophy, critical theory, sociology, and social anthropology.

Food Substitutes, Health Supplements, and the Geist of Fitness in India -- Fast Food and Fatness in Popular Media -- Accio Food -- Who Eats Whom? -- What do you want for dinner, honey? -- Food for Thought-Feeling -- The Anatomy of Obesity -- Hunger Games -- Food for Soul, 'Soul' for Food.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Cyber-Critiques: Of Exclusion, Surveillance, and Co-optation -- Cyber-Politics: The New Media and Alternative Modes of Resistance -- Cyber-Aesthetics and Narratives of Leisure -- Cyber-Narratives: Roleplaying, Interactivity, and Authority -- References -- Part ICyber-Critiques: Of Exclusion, Surveillance and Co-optation -- 2 Finless Fishes in the Cyberian Sea: Internet and Exclusion in India -- Introduction -- References -- 3 Surveillance as Norm -- A Short History of Surveillance -- Tools of Surveillance -- Surveillance for Commercial and Political Interests -- Surveillance for 'common good' -- Surveillance and Media -- References -- 4 Cyberspace and the Illusions of Ultra-Democracy -- Born into Neoliberalism -- The Political Possibilities -- References -- Part IICyber-Politics: The New Media and Alternative Modes of Resistance -- 5 Digital Feminist Interventions: A Critical Assessment of the Pink Chaddi Campaign and #MeToo in India -- References -- 6 New Media, Identity and Minorities: The Role of Internet in Mainstreaming of Muslims in India -- State of Muslims in India -- New Media as Harbinger of Change? -- Scope for an Alternative Media -- TwoCircles.Net as an Alternative News Portal -- Muslim Youths' Forum Against Communalism, Terrorism, and Sedition -- Twitter Trends -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IIICyber-Aesthetics and Narratives of Leisure -- 7 Cyberspace and the Aesthetics of Contemporary Perception -- References -- 8 A Cyberian Turn in Pornography: Understanding Internet as a Sexual Medium -- References -- 9 'Yeh Bik Gai Hai Gormint' Understanding Meme Culture in India -- Introduction -- References.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- 1 Oceanic Histories: from the Terrestrial to the Maritime -- 2 Thinking With the Ocean: a Quartet of Conversations -- 3 Oceanic Encounters With the "Other" in the Age of Empire: late-Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts of Indian Muslims -- 4 Indians in South Africa Before Indenture: a Story of Deep Oceanic Connections -- Index.

"'Ocean as Method' presents a new way of thinking about the humanities and the social sciences. It explores maritime connections in social and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to national histories and area studies. As global warming and rising sea levels ring alarm bells across the world, the essays in the volume argue that it is time to think through oceans to realign discourses which better understand our future. The volume: - Engages with the paradigms of oceanic narratives to identify connections between continents through trade, migration, and economic processes, thinking beyond the artificial distinctions between the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans; - Discusses oceanic travel accounts by Muslim travelers to counter the idea that the colonial era was marked by European travel to Asia and Africa, without a counterflow of "native travel"; - Examines the connections between South Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia through histories of Indian indenture and the slave trade, and engages with the idea of the ocean and enforced movement; - Compares and connects recent scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities centering the ocean to break away from inherited paradigms which have shaped world history so far. A unique transdisciplinary collaboration, this volume will be of much interest to scholars and researchers of history, especially oceanic history, historiography, critical theory, literature, geography, and Global South studies"--