Check out this piece in The Conversation by Dr. Preminda Jacob, Associate Dean of CAHSS and Affiliate Associate Professor of Asian Studies at UMBC. She discusses her research on the use of cinema to influence electoral and political decision-making in Tamil Nadu and India at large, and cinema's role in political polarization and promotion of Hindu nationalist ideals. As Dr. Jacob references - India's entertainment film industry has a massive worldwide audience. 

Adopting a Global Asias framing, we can imagine how this reach has implications beyond India, particularly in the political formation of South Asian diasporas and in U.S.-India state relations.

Read the article at The Conversation.