Television Publics in South Asia

List of Figures vii

List of Tables viii

List of Contributors ix

Acknowledgements xiii

1 Introduction: Imagining South Asian Television Publics 1

S.M. Shameem Reza and Ratan Kumar Roy

PART I

Television Viewership and Localizing Publics 19

2 Social Realms of Audiences: Women's Collective Viewing of Mega Teledramas in Sri Lanka 21

Shashini Gamage

3 The Dramatic Escape From Pandemic Life: Everyday Experience of Watching Television During the Lockdowns 38

Rashmi Kumar

4 Televised Sexuality and Public Perception: Voicing the Taboo in Pakistani TV Dramas 51

Wajiha Raza Rizvi and Maheen Imran

5 Indian Television and the Rise of the Local: Televised Realities of Localized Sociocultural Experience 74

Raj Sony Jalarajan and Adith K. Suresh

PART II

Consumption and Construction of Reality 91

6 OTT-Based Digital Sociality: An Exploration of the Viewership Among Urban Youth in Bangladesh 93

Moiyen Zalal Chowdhury

7 Television News and Public Perception of Death in India: Case of Covid-19 Pandemic 111

Deepu Pratheep

8 Television Viewership and Engagement in Rural Kashmir: From Cathode Ray Tube to Smart TV 123

Syed Aadil Hussain and Ruheela Hassan

9 Emergence of Television Publics in Nepal: Intense Participation of Audiences as News Sources, Critics and Fans 137

Harsha Man Maharjan

PART III

Mediatizing Politics and Constructing Publics 159

10 Live Public: Television and Mobilization in Post-Liberalization India 161

Abhijit Roy

11 The Everyday Nation of Indian News Television 178

Maya Ranganathan

12 Reproducing the Truth: Television News in Sri Lanka 195

Pradeep N' Weerasinghe

13 From Public Turn to Publicness in Media: Notes on Media Public in India 220

Biswajit Das and Ridhi Kakkar

Index 242

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