Aswin Punathambekar Editor & Author

Aswin Punathambekar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and faculty affiliate at the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA. He is the author of From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry (2013) and co-editor of Global Bollywood (2008). Shanti Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radio-TV-Film and a faculty affiliate in the Department of Asian Studies, the Center for Asian-American Studies and the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas-Austin, USA. He is the author of Gandhi Meets Primetime: Globalization and Nationalism in Indian Television (2006) and co-editor of Planet TV (2003).