Introduction : locating cultural change : process and method -- Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin and makeover of Indian soaps / Abhijit Roy -- Foreign babies/Indian make : outsourcing reproduction in the age of globalization / Modhumita Roy -- Nationalism, television and Indian cricket in global mediascape : where has the local gone? / Manas Ghosh -- Bollywood and the Mumbai underworld : reading Satya in retrospect / Rajdeep Roy -- Translating India today : local cultures, global ambitions and colonial hangovers / Sayantan Dasgupta -- Kya Hum Pehle Kabhi Yahan Aye Hai : returning to look at the "Indian" in Indian cinema through Farah Khan's Om Shanti Om / Ipshita Chanda -- Minority rights in India : a view from the regional press / Partha Pratim Basu -- Medical advertisement : an embodiment of culture / Dalia Chakraborty -- Just for fun : changing notions of social forms of leisure / Nilanjana Gupta and Devlina Gopalan