Remote Control: Indian Television in the New Millennium by Shoma Munshi

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Remote Control offers a comprehensive and incisive look into how Indian television transformed during the early 21st century. The book dives into three influential genres—24×7 news, soap operas, and reality shows—and explores how each has been hybridized, indigenized, and tailored to project a distinctly Indian identity. Munshi argues that television both reflects everyday Indian realities and simultaneously shapes societal norms and perceptions.

By analyzing how programming formats merge global influences with local themes, she reveals how Indian TV evolved not just as entertainment—but as a cultural force, deeply intertwined with changing politics, values, and identities

About the Author —

Shoma Munshi is a distinguished cultural anthropologist specializing in media studies. She serves as Professor of Anthropology at the American University of Kuwait and is a Senior Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany.

Her academic portfolio includes Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian Television (2010), and she has edited works like Images of the “Modern Woman” in Asia (2001) and Media, War and Terrorism (2004/2006). Munshi earned her PhD from EHESS in Paris and has taught and conducted research at institutions such as Delhi University, the University of Amsterdam, University of Pennsylvania, and the UNDP in New Delhi.

Her work is known for bringing anthropological precision to the study of mass media—illuminating how television both mirrors and molds social structures, identities, and everyday life.

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