Central Asia and South Asia: Economic, Developmental and Socio-Cultural Linkages

Dr. Rashmi Doraiswamy studied Russian Language and literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her doctoral dissertation was on Mikhail Bakhtin, the Russian philosopher of culture. She is currently Associate Professor at the Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia and is working on Central Asia. Her writings on litetature and cinema have appeared in prestigious publications in India and abroad. Her entry on ‘Literarture and Film (India)’ has appeared in the ‘Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures’ (Routledge, 2005). She was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by the Tadjik Filmmakers’ Union in 1991 for the promotion of Tadjik Cinema. She also won the National Award for the Best Writing on Cinema in 1995. She is co-editor of the book ‘Being and Becoming: The Cinemas of Asia’ (Macmillan,2002).