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Relating to others – where we theorise on relatability and relativity. Hold my drink, Einstein.

Two otakus on the Holy Grail i.e. desi anime memes!

From piracy and Animax to YouTube and Facebook meme pages, Isha Sanekar and Aditya Talpade look at how memes and meaning-making has changed hands over the years in Indian anime communities.

IG Live on Auntology: aunty memes and queer aesthetics

Leadership Programme Fellow Kshiti S.V. chats with Kareem about the cultural and ideological spaces shaped by aunties, and how they inform geographies of humour and performance.

Memes in the mainstream: Bollywood

From retro memes to Bollywood ‘struggles’ – filmy memes ensure that we evaluate the source content and hold celebrity culture accountable. Kshiti S.V. writes about how they are queered, brought back from our campy pasts and often excuse a lot of our awful biases!

Make-believe: regional identities in digital memes

“…huge discourses of identity are created, shared and lived in a single meme,” writes Prateek Gupta as he explains how regional memes can create unconventional ideological spaces on the interwebs.

The shape of us: netizens and the changing conception of community

What does one mean by online communities if anonymity and deception are cornerstone practices of the Web? Prateek Gupta writes about how an innocuous funny picture is often the basic unit of relationships and communication on the internet.