Sahana Udupa is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Goettingen, Germany. Her research interests have evolved around anthropological explorations of news media, global urbanization, social media, and transnational religious politics. She has been awarded fellowships and grants by the Annenberg School of Communication (University of Pennsylvania), the Max Planck Society (Germany), and the National Institute of Advanced Studies (India). Her research is published in premier academic journals including American Ethnologist and Media, Culture and Society. She is actively involved in international academic collaborations across India, Europe and North America. She carries with her several years of experience working as a bilingual journalist in India, and her enduring relations with the journalistic community.

'Sahana Udupa's Making News in Global India ranks among the most important theoretical and ethnographic studies of news media in South Asia to be published in recent years. She argues convincingly that our assumptions about publicity and privacy, vernacular and standard, local and global need to be rethought in order to fully understand the operations of news media in India's 'world-class' cities.' Dominic Boyer, Rice University, Houston

• Introduction: the twin mediations; 1. Regimes of desire; 2. Democracy by default; 3. The difference machine: market and field logics of news production; 4. Kannada Jāgate: sounds and silences of the Bhasha media; 5. 'Journalists are pimps': a triangulated axis of caste, language and politics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Sahana Udupa is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Goettingen, Germany. Her research interests have evolved around anthropological explorations of news media, global urbanization, social media, and transnational religious politics. She has been awarded fellowships and grants by the Annenberg School of Communication (University of Pennsylvania), the Max Planck Society (Germany), and the National Institute of Advanced Studies (India). Her research is published in premier academic journals including American Ethnologist and Media, Culture and Society. She is actively involved in international academic collaborations across India, Europe and North America. She carries with her several years of experience working as a bilingual journalist in India, and her enduring relations with the journalistic community.

'Sahana Udupa's Making News in Global India ranks among the most important theoretical and ethnographic studies of news media in South Asia to be published in recent years. She argues convincingly that our assumptions about publicity and privacy, vernacular and standard, local and global need to be rethought in order to fully understand the operations of news media in India's 'world-class' cities.' Dominic Boyer, Rice University, Houston

• Introduction: the twin mediations; 1. Regimes of desire; 2. Democracy by default; 3. The difference machine: market and field logics of news production; 4. Kannada Jāgate: sounds and silences of the Bhasha media; 5. 'Journalists are pimps': a triangulated axis of caste, language and politics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Sahana Udupa is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Goettingen, Germany. Her research interests have evolved around anthropological explorations of news media, global urbanization, social media, and transnational religious politics. She has been awarded fellowships and grants by the Annenberg School of Communication (University of Pennsylvania), the Max Planck Society (Germany), and the National Institute of Advanced Studies (India). Her research is published in premier academic journals including American Ethnologist and Media, Culture and Society. She is actively involved in international academic collaborations across India, Europe and North America. She carries with her several years of experience working as a bilingual journalist in India, and her enduring relations with the journalistic community.

'Sahana Udupa's Making News in Global India ranks among the most important theoretical and ethnographic studies of news media in South Asia to be published in recent years. She argues convincingly that our assumptions about publicity and privacy, vernacular and standard, local and global need to be rethought in order to fully understand the operations of news media in India's 'world-class' cities.' Dominic Boyer, Rice University, Houston

• Introduction: the twin mediations; 1. Regimes of desire; 2. Democracy by default; 3. The difference machine: market and field logics of news production; 4. Kannada Jāgate: sounds and silences of the Bhasha media; 5. 'Journalists are pimps': a triangulated axis of caste, language and politics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.