Talk:Tulasi Srinivas

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The result was: promoted by Dclemens1971 (talk) 16:23, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

• ... that Tulasi Srinivas once wrote an anthropology book on beauty parlors? Source: Tulasi Srinivas‘s The Goddess in the Mirror is an ethnography of Bangalore’s beauty salons, teasing out how beauty intertwines with gender, labour, caste and myth in urban India. An intimate and theoretically rich study, Gunjan Shekhawat deems it an original, nuanced insight into how everyday practices become sites of political struggle. + Subjects: Anthropology > Cultural Anthropology, Asian Studies > South Asia, Gender and Sexuality
  • ALT1: ... that Tulasi Srinivas once studied the anthropology of beauty parlors? Source: First ref in ALT0
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1965 Michigan State Spartans football team (two-article nom)

ミラP@Miraclepine 14:42, 9 May 2026 (UTC).

• I take, will review in the next 48 hours.--Launchballer 14:44, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Long enough, new enough. Double QPQ provided (not sure how I missed it, but anyway...). Earwig's picking up lots of phrases, but I think they're all WP:LIMITED. No reason why either would deserve a maintenance template. Apologies if this is obvious, but I didn't know what anthropology was and had to look it up, so suggest rephrasing.--Launchballer 22:15, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

@Launchballer: Done, plus some backup hooks:

• ALT2: ... that Tulasi Srinivas once did an ethnographic study of beauty parlors? Source: Tulasi Srinivas‘s The Goddess in the Mirror is an ethnography of Bangalore’s beauty salons, teasing out how beauty intertwines with gender, labour, caste and myth in urban India.
• ALT3: ... that Tulasi Srinivas once remarked she was "literally in two worlds" doing research for her book The Goddess in the Mirror? Source: Doing digital fieldwork, I found myself literally in two worlds. I spent half the Boston night virtually in Bangalore, listening to the koels singing and crows cawing and hearing the blow dryers in the parlors and the election megaphones in the streets as I spoke with beauty workers.
• ALT4: ... a reviewer said that Tulasi Srinivas's book The Goddess in the Mirror "makes you ask about every step of life, every urge of self-fashioning"? Source: This is a book that makes you ask about every step of life, every urge of self-fashioning. Tulasi Srinivas lets you think it might be divine after all. In a world where so many of us have lost hope, she hangs on precisely to that.
• ALT4B: ... a reviewer said that Tulasi Srinivas's book The Goddess in the Mirror "makes you ask about every step of life"? Source: Same as ALT4

Re ALT2: I think the first part of "ethnographic" should be enough for DYKINT? If not I have backup hooks. I might do a "trilogy" double-hook with The Cow in the Elevator since I found reviews, but I don't have a lot of time to make the article since I have to study for finals this week. ミラP@Miraclepine 15:15, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

@Miraclepine: Apologies for dropping this. Approving ALT2 for now; may pop back to assess another. Ping me if you create The Cow in the Elevator.--Launchballer 11:55, 28 May 2026 (UTC)