Epsita Halder

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Epsita Halder is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University in Kolkata. Her research focuses on the formulations of the battle of Karbala and identity search of the Bangali Muslims in nineteenth-twentieth centuries and of the Shia community in West Bengal.

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Mourning Martyrdom Online: A Cyber Imagined Shia Community

For the past 20 years, globalization and new media have been influential in shaping the religious landscape of South Asia. The Shia imagination, even in the remotest villages of Bengal, was first fired by the era of analog technology via cassettes and then caught in the web of digital media.

Appears in 220416170657 (2018) Read Article →