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| caption = Rashmi Doraiswamy, [[International Film Festival of India|IFFI]] ([[45th International Film Festival of India|2014]])<br />
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'''Dr Rashmi Doraiswamy''' is a [[National Film Award]] winning [[film critic]]. She received her M. Phil from the Centre for Russian Studies, [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] (Delhi, India) for her dissertation, 'A Critique of [[Mikhail Bakhtin]]'s Theory of Literature in the Context of Contemporary Theories of Literature and the Formalist School of the 20s'. She is currently Professor (Central Asia) at the [[MMAJ Academy of International Studies]], [[Jamia Millia Islamia]]<br />
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==Books==<br />
*Co-editor - Being and Becoming: The Cinemas of Asia ([[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]], 2002).<br />
*Co-author - [[Encyclopedia]] of Postcolonial Literatures in English (Chapter: ‘Film and Literature (India)'; [[Routledge]], 2005)<br />
*Co-author - Image and Imagination: Reconstructing the Nation, in ‘India: A National Culture ([[SAGE Publications]], 2003)<br />
*Co-author - Hindi Commercial Cinema: Changing Narrative Strategies in Frames of Mind: Reflections on Indian Cinema (ed. [[Aruna Vasudev]]), [[UBS Publication, 1995]]<br />
*Co-author - Idiocy and Civilisation: A Study of [[Dostoevsky]]'s The Idiot in The Russian Enigma (ed. [[Madhavan Palat]] and [[Geeti Sen]], UBS Publications, 1994)<br />
*Author - The Post-Soviet Condition: Chingiz Aitmatov in the '90s ([[Aakar]], 2005).<br />
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==Translations (Russian To English)==<br />
*Piranesi, [[Sergei Eisenstein]], Excerpts from his book ‘Non-Indifferent Nature', Cinemaya 2, 1989<br />
*Distanced Montage/A Theory of Distance, [[Artavazd Peleshyan]], Cinemaya 3, 1989<br />
*Ishmukhamedov's Shok, [[Djhura Teshabaev]], [[Cinemaya]] 8, 1990<br />
*Landmarks in Tadjik cinema, [[Ato Akhrorov]], Cinemaya 13, 1991<br />
*Trying Times: Women Directors in the Asian Republics, [[Andrei Plakhov]], Cinemaya 27, 1995<br />
*Lessons from the East, Andrei Plakhov, Cinemaya 41,1998<br />
*Women behind the camera in Kazakh Cinema, Cinemaya 42, 1998<br />
*Evgeny Margolit, ‘Cinemas of Central Asia', in Being and Becoming, Macmillan, New Delhi, 2002<br />
*L Trotsky's Theory of Imperialism and the Universal Crisis of Capitalism, V Serebryakov<br />
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==Awards and accolades==<br />
* [[MAJLIS]] research fellowship for project entitled ‘Changing Narrative Strategies of hindi Cinema'.<ref name="majlisbombay">{{cite web|url=http://majlisbombay.org/rashmi-doraiswamy/|publisher=majlisbombay.org|title=Rashmi Doraiswamy|accessdate=2016-11-02}}</ref><br />
*Certificate of Appreciation by [[Tadjik Filmmakers' Union]], for the active promotion of [[Tajik cinema]].<br />
*National Film Award for Best Film Critic<br />
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==Jury duty==<br />
*Selection committee member, Foreign films - IFFI-2005<br />
*Selection committee member - Talent Campus India (part of [[Berlin Film Festival]]/Cinefan scout for young filmmakers from India)<br />
*Member, Feature Film Jury - National Film Awards <ref name="pib">{{cite web|url=http://pib.nic.in/archive/releases98/lyr2003/rjul2003/09072003/r0907200316.html|publisher=pib.nic.in|title=PIB Press Releases|accessdate=2016-11-02}}</ref><br />
*Member, Book Jury - National Film Awards<br />
*Member, 54th National Film Awards<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2008/jun/54th_nfa.pdf|title = Untitled Page}}</ref><br />
*Member, FIPRESCI Jury - [[Sochi International Film Festival]]<br />
*Member - Kinotavr Open Russian Film Festival<br />
*Member - National Film Awards for Non-Feature Films<br />
*FIPRESCI Jury - [[Toronto International Film Festival]]<ref name="fipresci">{{cite web|url=http://www.fipresci.org/people/rashmi-doraiswamy|publisher=fipresci.org|title=FIPRESCI - Rashmi Doraiswamy|accessdate=2016-11-02}}</ref><br />
*NETPAC Jury - [[Taiwan International Documentary Festival]]<br />
*Member of the jury - [[Mumbai International Film Festival]]<br />
*Member of the jury - [[Mannheim International Film Festival]]<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Film Critics Circle of India]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://jmi.ac.in/ais/faculty-members/Dr_Rashmi_Doraiswamy-1644 Jamia Milla]<br />
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