How Tamil cinema romanticises agriculture by ignoring issues of caste and gender
With the ‘save farmers’ trope coming back to mainstream discussion after the jallikattu protests in 2017, movies once again began connecting Tamil identity to agriculture. Any threat to agriculture was seen as a threat to Tamil identity itself. Akchayaa Rajkumar writes.
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