Bullets of Bollywood
Bullets of Bollywood Fariyah Nazneen Premaa and Faizul Khan Tanim writes on media imperialism of Hindi culture and tries to find the answer to the cardinal question - do we want the bullets or the palettes of Bollywood Twenty-first century is much smarter, organized, less cocky, less arrogant and much more shrewd and vicious from the times when Alexander tried to capture the world with muscles. Cultural or media imperialism is one of the greatest tools that developed countries use to dominate the developing ones and if we are to trace the origin of this theory, maybe a grand ‘thank you’ is long due for mother England, directly ruling South Asia for more than 200 years but indirectly ruling us till date. I’m not saying the British Council, USIS as cultural hubs, advanced education like the Cambridge system, Edexcel O/A levels, International Baccalaureates, the American school system elsewhere in the world or the Western Media or Hollywood are necessarily ...