Tirchhi Nazar: The Gaze in South Asia beyond Darshan.

A central feature of I darshan i that distinguished it from the ocularcentric discourse of the gaze was its sensorial dimension, where I darshan i was imbricated with the tactile and the aural, what Christopher Pinney had called a "corpothetics".[33] While this haptic vision allowed the devotee to "drink in" the auspicious presence of the deity or guru, the flip side of this was the charge of ritual pollution that accompanied the gaze of Dalits and "untouchables", who were historically denied entry into temples for I darshan i . Keywords: darshan; vision; nazar; gaze; optics; media EN darshan vision nazar gaze optics media 77 88 12 05/09/22 20211101 NES 211101 As the Delta variant ravaged through Indian cities in the summer of 2021, the glossy sheen on the Indian economic success story appeared to be coming apart. The scholarship on I darshan i coincided fortuitously with the dramatic changes in the Indian media landscape with the popularity of Doordarshan, the state owned television network, as well as video through the 80s. The many cognates of I darshan i - I samdarshan, doordarshan, priyadarshan i moreover cast I darshan i as a wider, more diffuse presence beyond the religious where national heroes or film stars could also give I darshan i . [Extracted from the article]