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Shole Drawers on the Liberalism of the State and the Nature of Land Deals
Shole drawers on these global film genres, but also indigenizes it to talk about the particular forms of criminality and a courtry in rural India I think this is drawing on some tropes, fantastical plotlines, magical plotlines, dawn from panoramithology. The western of the way in which the ties happens, and so it's a very memorable scene of the film. It really brings into view the liberalism of the state and the nature of land deals that can be quite violent in which the state is quite complicit. All the spectacular instantiations of the shadow state as well as the kind of everyday moumantine, illegal and extra legal maneuvers Yeah, thank you
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