Other Works

 
 

 Whilst creating animated bilingual children’s stories is Coonoor’s passion, as a former Honorary Institute Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (including the Centre of Asian Studies) at the University of Hong Kong, Coonoor published several articles and book reviews in both academic journals and newspapers, as well as a variety of other written works.

Books

-editor with Jayati Bhattacharya, “Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities: Comparative Perspectives” (London & NY: Anthem Press & Singapore: ISEAS, March 2015)

Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities:

Comparative Perspectives

Co-editor with Jayati Bhattacharya (London & NY: Anthem Press & Singapore: ISEAS, March 2015)

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Mahatma Gandhi: Apostle of Non-violence (New Delhi: Rupa & Co., 2003), 95 pp.

Mahatma Gandhi:

Apostle of Non-violence

(New Delhi: Rupa & Co., 2003)

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Articles

 

  • "Imagining Gandhi in Times of Covid,” Seminar, 737, January 2021, pp. 67-71.

  • “Top Ten Things to Know About India in the Twenty-First Century,” Education About Asia (Special Issue on Teaching Asia’s Giants: India), Winter 2020, vol. 25.3, pp. 13-17.

  • “COVID Reflections: A View from Singapore,” CSEAS NEWSLETTER, 78: TBC, Kyoto University, June 22, 2020.

  • “All India Radio’s Glory Days and Its Search for Autonomy,” Economic and Political Weekly, Special Article, LIII.37, September 15, 2018, pp. 42-50.

  • “Building Nationhood through Broadcast Media in Postcolonial India,” Education About Asia, 22.1, Spring 2017, pp. 40-44.

  • “Sports and Indian Culture in Popular Film,” Education About Asia, 21.2, Fall 2016, pp. 13-20.

  • “Overseas Indian and Chinese Communities in Film: Defining Identities Through Popular Hindi Film and Transnational Chinese and Indian Films – the 1990s Onwards,” in Jayati Bhattacharya and Coonoor Kripalani, eds., Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities: Comparative Perspectives (London & NY: Anthem Press & Singapore: ISEAS, 2015), pp. 235-55.

  • “Introduction,” with Jayati Bhattacharya, in Jayati Bhattacharya and Coonoor Kripalani, eds., Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities: Comparative Perspectives (London & NY: Anthem Press & Singapore: ISEAS, 2015), pp. xiii-xxi.

  • “‘Why are you making such a big deal just because I am a woman?’ Women Directors of Popular Indian Cinema,” in Gabrielle Kelly & Cheryl Robson, eds., Celluloid Ceiling: Women Directors Breaking Through (Twickenham, UK: Supernova Books, 2014), pp. 210-32. Available on Amazon. Click here.

  • “Bollywood Reflects India-China Love-Hate,“ IDN, In-depth News, May 24, 2013.

  • “India-China Love-Hate on the Silver Screen,” Yaleglobal Online Journal, May 21, 2013.

  • “Thoda Hard, Thoda Soft,” India’s Outlook Weekly, May 21, 2013, p. and online.

  • “In Remembrance: Yash Chopra (1932-2012),” Asian Cinema 24.1, pp. 125-30, Spring 2013.

  • “Emily of Emerald Hill: A Reaffirmation of Peranakan Culture,” Education About Asia online supplement, Asian Visual and Performing Arts, 18.1, Spring 2013.

  • “Reading China in Popular Film: Three Points in Time,” Asian Cinema 23.2, pp. 217-229, Winter 2012.

  • “Reviving Gandhi and the Utopia of Hind Swaraj in Popular Hindi Films,” Social Change – Journal of the Council for Social Development, vol. 39, no. 4, December 2009, pp. 504-27.

  • “‘Indian Youth Culture’: Reflections on Film,” An EAA Interview with Coonoor Kripalani,” in Education About Asia, Winter 2008: Volume 13, Number 3, pp. 19-23,

  • “Imaging Marriage & Family in Popular Hindi Film,” Education About Asia, V 13.1, Spring 2008, pp. 30-5.

  • “Trendsetting and Product Placement in Bollywood Film: Consumerism through Consumption,” New Cinemas – Journal of Contemporary Film, 4.3, February 2007, pp.197-215

  • “The Bottom Line: Issues of Financial Independence in Calls to AWARE’s Helpline,” Awareness, v. 11, March 2004, pp. 25-45

  • “The Making of a Terrorist: Through the Lens of Bollywood,” Education About Asia, v. 9.2, Fall 2004, pp. 64-9.

  • “What’s Love Got to do With It? – Bollywood Courtesans & Hollywood Prostitutes,” Inter-Cultural Studies, v. 2.2, August 2002, pp.60-72.

  • “Coming of Age: Bollywood Productions of the Nineties,” Asian Cinema, Spring/Summer 2001, pp. 29-48.

 
 

Reviews

 

  • Review of Home is Where we Are by Wang Gungwu and Margaret Wang, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong (JRASHK), vol 62, 2022, pp. 267-9.

  • Film Review Essay, Around India with a Movie Camera, Dir.: Sandhya Suri, Prod.: Nicola Gallani, 72 mins, Colour and Black & White, Icarus Films, 2018, in Education About Asia, 24.1, Spring 2019, pp.64-5.

  • Review of Shah Rukh Khan, The King of Bollywood, by Anupama Chopra, in Asian Cinema, v. 19.1, Spring/Summer 2008, pp. 188-9.

  • Review of Gandhi’s Way: A Handbook of Conflict Resolution, by Mark Juergensmeyer, in Contemporary South Asia 13(3), September 2004, 341-2.

  • Review of The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia, by Tai Yong Tan & Gyanesh Kudaisya, in Journal of Oriental Studies, v. 37.2, 1999, pp.293-6 (published in 2002).

 
 

Fiction: Short Stories

 

  • “My Friend Clare: A Most Endearing Personality,” in IMPRINT, No 17 (the annual anthology of Women in Publishing Society Hong Kong, 2018), pp. 149-154.

  • “Grandpa is a Brute!” in IMPRINT, No 16 (the annual anthology of Women in Publishing Society Hong Kong, 2017), pp. 33-37.

  • “The Lottery,” in IMPRINT, No. 15 (the annual anthology of Women in Publishing Society Hong Kong, 2016), pp. 35-40.

  • “One Night in Bangkok,” in IMPRINT 2007 (the annual anthology of Women in Publishing Society Hong Kong), pp. 105-8.

  • “Running Scared,” in IMPRINT 2005 (the annual anthology of Women in Publishing Society Hong Kong), pp. 51-55.