The Digital Popular in India Mainstreaming the Marginal

Deepali Yadav , PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Banaras Hindu University, India. She holds expertise in Popular Culture studies and her doctoral research is based on the representations of Mahatma Gandhi in Popular Culture. She has been awarded the Charles Wallace India Trust grant for conducting archival research at The British Library, London. She has also been a Visiting Fellow at CSRS, University of Victoria, Canada.

Vipin K Kadavath  is an Assistant Professor of English at Banaras Hindu University, India. He received his PhD in cultural studies in 2017. His thesis titled “Historicizing Kshemam: A Study of Vernacular Political Discourse in Travancore, 1880s-1930s” His forthcoming publications include a translation of the Malayalam story “The God and the Sirkar” (Bloomsbury) and a book chapter “Kumaran Asan and the Poetics of Freedom: On the Moral Transformation in the Vernacular” (Orient Blackswan).