Rashmi Doraiswamy

Dr Rashmi Doraiswamy is a National Film Award winning film critic. She received her M. Phil from the Centre for Russian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) for her dissertation, 'A Critique of Mikhail Bakhtin's Theory of Literature in the Context of Contemporary Theories of Literature and the Formalist School of the 20s'. She is currently Professor (Central Asia) at the MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia

Books Co-editor - Being and Becoming: The Cinemas of Asia (Macmillan, 2002). Co-author - Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures in English (Chapter: ‘Film and Literature (India)'; Routledge, 2005) Co-author - Image and Imagination: Reconstructing the Nation, in ‘India: A National Culture (SAGE Publications, 2003) Co-author - Hindi Commercial Cinema: Changing Narrative Strategies in Frames of Mind: Reflections on Indian Cinema (ed. Aruna Vasudev), UBS Publication, 1995 Co-author - Idiocy and Civilisation: A Study of Dostoevsky's The Idiot in The Russian Enigma (ed. Madhavan Palat and Geeti Sen, UBS Publications, 1994) Author - The Post-Soviet Condition: Chingiz Aitmatov in the '90s (Aakar, 2005).

Translations (Russian To English) Piranesi, Sergei Eisenstein, Excerpts from his book ‘Non-Indifferent Nature', Cinemaya 2, 1989 Distanced Montage/A Theory of Distance, Artavazd Peleshyan, Cinemaya 3, 1989 Ishmukhamedov's Shok, Djhura Teshabaev, Cinemaya 8, 1990 Landmarks in Tadjik cinema, Ato Akhrorov, Cinemaya 13, 1991 Trying Times: Women Directors in the Asian Republics, Andrei Plakhov, Cinemaya 27, 1995 Lessons from the East, Andrei Plakhov, Cinemaya 41,1998 Women behind the camera in Kazakh Cinema, Cinemaya 42, 1998 Evgeny Margolit, ‘Cinemas of Central Asia', in Being and Becoming, Macmillan, New Delhi, 2002 L Trotsky's Theory of Imperialism and the Universal Crisis of Capitalism, V Serebryakov

Awards and accolades MAJLIS research fellowship for project entitled ‘Changing Narrative Strategies of hindi Cinema'. Certificate of Appreciation by Tadjik Filmmakers' Union, for the active promotion of Tajik cinema. National Film Award for Best Film Critic

Jury duty Selection committee member, Foreign films - IFFI-2005 Selection committee member - Talent Campus India (part of Berlin Film Festival/Cinefan scout for young filmmakers from India) Member, Feature Film Jury - National Film Awards Member, Book Jury - National Film Awards Member, 54th National Film Awards Member, FIPRESCI Jury - Sochi International Film Festival Member - Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival Member - National Film Awards for Non-Feature Films FIPRESCI Jury - Toronto International Film Festival NETPAC Jury - Taiwan International Documentary Festival Member of the jury - Mumbai International Film Festival Member of the jury - Mannheim International Film Festival