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“An eclectic collection of studies with chapters on oral narratives of Goa, Balaji Telefilms, textile mills in Ahmedabad, the sari, and Mulk Raj Anand, Khanwalkar’s is the best book on the semiotics of design to come out of India in this Century.”
- Paul Cobley, Professor in Language and Media at the Middlesex University, UK
Applied Semiotic Tools For the Indian Cultural Context is a Semiotic research account of various cultural complicities across the Indian context through Seema Khanwalkar's unique lens.
The chapters across the book are published articles and essays throughout Khanwalkar’s elaborate career as a researcher and professor. We imagined these profound cultural observations through the semiotic method as ‘relics’ or ‘seals’ that can become metaphors for the various themes across the book. As a visual concept, these themes are imagined as actual ceramic relics created by Snehal Kashikar in pigmented terracotta.
