P. Thirumal
Senior professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Hyderabad, specialising in media history, technology studies, and cultural practices in South Asia; co-editor of the volume Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities.
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Mar 17, 2026 • 1h 20min
P. Thirumal and K. A. Nuaiman eds., "Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities: Media and Cultural Practices in South Asia" (Orient BlackSwan, 2025)
Carmel Christy K. J., an academic linking cinema and urban life in Kochi, and P. Thirumal, a media historian of South Asia, discuss media’s deep histories and cultural continuities. They explore telegraphy and journalism, prehistories of modern media, city cinema geographies, and how technologies shape everyday life. The conversation sketches plural modernities and cinema’s role in urban becoming.
Mar 17, 2026 • 1h 20min
P. Thirumal and K. A. Nuaiman eds., "Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities: Media and Cultural Practices in South Asia" (Orient BlackSwan, 2025)
P. Thirumal, a media historian specializing in South Asian print and technology studies, and Carmel Christy K. J., a scholar of urban media and cinema tied to Kochi, discuss how media and technologies have their own lives. They explore telegraphy, archives, script politics, city cinema zones, and how technologies shape modernities across South Asia.
