Re: What is Bollystan?

Description: Khanna talks about a global Indian culture.

Transcript: Alright, Bollystan, it was a mix of Bollywood which is the way in which people think about Indian culture as this all borderless on composing you know if culture essence that is Indian and its every where and stan is just the suffix that means country and to me Bollystan is this global Indian culture that knows no borders and is every where were the Diaspora is and even were isn’t it sort of in facts audiences and gets people watching bollywood but it wasn’t really just it up bollywood. It was Indianness more broadly an Indian culture and the ways in which India can project itself as a global presence even if it is in the global economic or strategic heavy weight and that Bollystan would in a way be a pillar of that strategy of making India great power even when it isn’t.

Recorded on: 3/3/08