"The dynamic new face of South Asian studies! It started out as serious, hard-core piles of manuscripts, but now the world knows about India and Bollywood is carrying it. It's a part of comparative literature these days; it’s rare to read a scholarly paper on India that doesn’t make reference to film. It’s colorful, it’s singing and dancing, it’s the New India – and it's at the Library."

Bronwen Bledsoe, curator of the South Asia collection