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  1. Cinematic experiments and political mythmaking: deconstructing the celebrity auteur body of Kamal Haasan in Indian cinema

    Article • Contemporary South Asia, October 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  2. Unveiling the drapes of drag: Queer as costume, spectacle and performance in Malayalam cinema

    Article • Studies in Costume & Performance, June 2026, Intellect

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  3. Into the feminist frontlines: The Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) and feminist solidarity in the Malayalam film industry

    Article • Asian Cinema, April 2026, Intellect

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  4. At the Crossroads of Erotic and Mainstream: The Two-phase Celebrity Stardom of Silk Smitha in Malayalam Cinema

    Article • BioScope South Asian Screen Studies, October 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  5. Engendering Pleasures

    Article • May 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  6. Screening Divine Monsters

    Article • March 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  7. The Western Gaze in RRR ’s “Naatu Naatu” and the Global Appeal of Indian Musicals

    Article • Dance Chronicle, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  8. Mothers of the South: power, suffering, and identity in maternal narratives of South Indian cinema

    Article • International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  9. Understanding Suburban Liminality: The Representation of Mumbai in Indian Cinema

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  10. Sovereign Consumers in a Pro-local Media Ecosystem: The Future of OTT Streaming in India

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  11. Forbidden spectacles of a bygone era: An analysis of Malayalam cinema’s soft-porn noon-show culture

    Article • Studies in South Asian Film & Media, October 2024, Intellect

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  12. Sports Narratives and Historical Nationalism: Re-Visiting the Context and Use of Field Hockey in Chak De! India

    Article • The International Journal of the History of Sport, September 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  13. Diaspora Dilemmas and Deadlocks

    Article • July 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  14. Bollywood, Mobility and Partition Politics:

    Article • July 2024, JSTOR

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  15. Dark days of Indian democracy: A historical study on the portrayal, censorship, and representation of ‘Indian emergency’ in Malayalam cinema

    Article • South Asian Popular Culture, May 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  16. Postmodernity and Elevated Horror in The Lodge (2019)

    Article • May 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  17. The Truth Lies In-between

    Article • April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  18. Towards Mature Manhood: The Representation of Neoliberal Boyhood in Bollywood Cinema

    Article • Australian Feminist Studies, April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  19. Transgressive Bodies in Dark Worlds: Female Gangsters and Film Noir in Indian Popular Cinema

    Article • Genre en séries, March 2024, OpenEdition

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  20. Spectacles of Masculine Super-Heroism

    Article • Journal of Bodies Sexualities and Masculinities, March 2024, Berghahn Journals

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  21. Fatherhood and Precarity: Protective Fathers and Dysfunctional Families in Jeethu Joseph’s Drishyam and Contemporary Malayalam Cinema

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  22. 6. Tit for Tat: Avenging Women and Self-fashioning Femininity in Malayalam Cinema

    Article • December 2023, De Gruyter

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  23. Porn Tube sites: How do gratifications, interactivity and contextual age predict usage and addiction in India?

    Article • Science Talks, December 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  24. Transnational Spaces of Digital Activism: Online Protests, Hashtag Culture, and Hysteria in Indian Digital Spaces

    Article • November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  25. Indian Television and the Rise of the Local

    Article • October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  26. The Yakshi Syndrome in Indian Popular Culture

    Article • October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  27. Between the Borders of Life and Art: Roman Polanski’s Transgressive Negotiations

    Article • Studies in Eastern European Cinema, September 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  28. Construction of Islamic Identity in Bollywood Cinema: A Study of Representation

    Article • Asian Journal of Communication, June 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj, ADITH K SURESH

  29. Poverty Porn in Media: Sensationalizing Indian Tragedies

    Article • May 2023, Taylor & Francis

    ADITH K SURESH, Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  30. Routledge Handbook of Descriptive Rhetorical Studies and World Languages

    Article • May 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  31. Girlhood, Bollywood Cinema and the 1970s Indian Popular Culture

    Article • Film Fashion & Consumption, April 2023, Intellect

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj, ADITH K SURESH

  32. Protesters and Masks in Political Resistance and Communication

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    ADITH K SURESH, Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  33. Openness, Indian Kitchen and Gender Roles

    Article • Interiors Design Architecture and Culture, December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj, ADITH K SURESH

  34. Tit for Tat: Avenging Women and Self-fashioning Femininity in Malayalam Cinema

    Article • December 2022, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  35. Remastering Prince: Cultural Artefacts and Posthumous Reception

    Article • Interactions Studies in Communication & Culture, September 2022, Intellect

    ADITH K SURESH, Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  36. Exploring Terrorism and Cross-Border Conflicts in Bollywood Cinema

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj, ADITH K SURESH

  37. Malaysian Journalists

    Article • October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  38. Malaysian Journalists

    Article • October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  39. Abuse of the Social Media Brain

    Article • January 2019, IGI Global

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  40. Ruling the Men's Den

    Article • September 2018, Wiley

    Dr Nithin Kalorth, Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  41. Ecofeminist moorings in globalized India

    Article • January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  42. Abuse of the Social Media Brain

    Article • January 2018, IGI Global

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  43. Obnoxious Mediations of Fake News

    Article • Media Watch, September 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  44. Obnoxious Mediations of Fake News

    Article • Media Watch, September 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  45. System within the Suburb: Dharavi and Class Depiction in Bollywood

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  46. Dissent and Displacement of Subalternity in Malayalam Cinema: A Cultural Analysis of Papilio Buddha by Jayan K. Cherian

    Article • Journal of Creative Communications, June 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  47. Mutualisation of News through an Engaging Media is a Safer Bet in the Age of Sustainability and Diminishing Advertising Revenue

    Article • Media Watch, May 2016, Media Watch

    Dr SOUMYA JOSE, Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  48. Slum Extravaganza!: Cultural and Geopolitical Representation of Dharavi in Celluloid India

    Article • January 2016, Nature

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  49. 'SEEDS' of 'Good Lessons' through 'Many a Drop'-- Media Initiation in Environmental Education: An Indian Model of Environmental Pedagogy

    Article • Earth Common Journal, October 2015, MacEwan University Library

    Dr Nithin Kalorth, Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  50. It's not Only 'Social', but Sourceful!

    Article • Media Watch, September 2015, Media Watch

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  51. Interfaces in Shaping Newsroom and Readership: Switching between News Making and Consumption in Web Synced Platforms

    Article • Media Watch, August 2015, Media Watch

    Dr Nithin Kalorth, Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  52. Beware the Monstrous Algorithms! they are Omnipresent in the Growing Media Space

    Article • Media Watch, January 2015, Media Watch

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  53. Gender construct as a narrative and text: The female protagonist in new-generation Malayalam cinema

    Article • South Asian Popular Culture, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  54. Publish or Perish: The Predatory Trends in AcademiaTransitions

    Article • Media Watch, September 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  55. Corporate Social Responsibility Communication from the Vedantic, Dharmic and Karmic Perspectives

    Article • July 2014, Emerald

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  56. Corporate Social Responsibility Communication from the Vedantic, Dharmic and Karmic Perspectives

    Article • July 2014, Emerald

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  57. Akshaya: Kerala's Hallmark Sustainable Model for ICTD

    Article • Journal of Global Communication, January 2014, Diva Enterprises Private Limited

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  58. Inevitable Social Media and Technological Determinism in a Wired World

    Article • Media Watch, January 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  59. A Qualitative Review of Literature on Peer Review of Teaching in Higher Education: An Application of the SWOT Framework

    Article • Review of Educational Research, September 2013, American Educational Research Association (AERA)

    Professor Loo-See Beh, Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  60. Colonial Rebels in Indian Cinema

    Article • Journal of Creative Communications, July 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  61. New Media and Technology in a Global Information Age: Multi-Platform Vertical Integrations and Acquisitions in the Global Media Spectrum

    Article • Media Watch, May 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  62. Editorial

    Article • Media Watch, January 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  63. From dissemination to response: in search of new strategies for broadcast media in terms of cyclone warnings for Bangladesh

    Article • Journal of Science Communication, December 2010, Sissa Medialab, SRL

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  64. Bollywood Sporting Spectacles:

    Article • IGI Global

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  65. Bollywoodizing Cricket!

    Article • IGI Global

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  66. Abuse of the Social Media Brain:

    Article • IGI Global

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj

  67. Bollywood Sporting Spectacles

    Article • IGI Global

    Dr Sony Jalarajan Raj