This volume brings together new studies and interdisciplinary research on the changing mediascapes in South Asia. Focusing on India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, it explores the transformations in the sphere of cinema, television, performance art, visual cultures, cyber space and digital media, beyond the partitions of 1947 and 1971.

Introduction - Moving beyond Partitions: Theorising the Academic Dialogue Part I. Soft Power: Performance, Film and Television 1. Trouble in Paradise: The Portrayal of the Kashmir Insurgency in Hindi 2. The Vale of Desire: Framing Kashmir in Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider 3. Finding Comfort in Silence? The Absence of Partition Narratives from the Contemporary Group Theatre in Kolkata 4. The Rise of the Celebrity Anchor in Pakistan's Private TV: The One Voice that Kills Other Voices Part II. Art and Visual Culture 5. Discourses on Partition through Visual Culture 6. Post-71: Photographic Ambivalences, Archives, and the Construction of a National Identity of Bangladesh 7. Speaking Soon after Catastrophe: The Partition Art of Satish Gujral and S. L. Parasher as Record, Testimony, Trauma Part III. Cyber Space, Social Media, and Digital Texts 8. Politicising the Body of the 'Other': India's Gaze at Pakistan 9. Keyboard Nations: Cyberhate and Partition Anxiety on Social Media 10. Pakistani Literary Digitalisation: "Mediascaping" Mohsin Hamid's "The (Former) General in his Labyrinth". Conclusion - Reflections: Building Bridges