Papers by Jayaram Krishna
Politics of laughter: An introduction to the 1990s’ Malayalam popular comic film
South Asian Popular Culture, 2008
This article attempts to consolidate the genre of Malayalam popular comic film of the 1990s. It a... more This article attempts to consolidate the genre of Malayalam popular comic film of the 1990s. It argues that the comic film cannot be theorized by using categories like ‘star’ and ‘fan club’. It also argues that a true and complete symbolization/representation of the (existing) social field is absent in the Malayalam comic film. It attributes this absence to the comedian‐hero's telling economic and cultural disability. It explores briefly the historical reasons behind the ‘representational shortcomings’ of such heroes in Kerala, and relates those reasons to the emergence of melodrama and comedy/laughter. It claims that in the comic film melodrama results from the failure of representation and, given that the existing socio‐symbolic order is a bourgeois one, it considers this failure positive. It also claims that the inadequate representation allows for the viewer a radical experience of the failure of the existing social field to symbolize the subaltern classes/castes.
Annals of Statistics, 1996
The Markov chain simulation method has been successfully used in many problems, including some th... more The Markov chain simulation method has been successfully used in many problems, including some that arise in Bayesian statistics. We give a self-contained proof of the convergence of this method in general state spaces under conditions that are easy to verify.
Customer First Corp (CFC) is a world leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control techn... more Customer First Corp (CFC) is a world leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technology systems. Due to competitive pressures from the global marketplace CFC had to take a hard look for ways to reduce cost while improving quality and delivery. The CEO of the company Mr. James Stewart has recently been exposed to Continuous Improvement principles and so has committed himself to launch a CIO campaign across the organization to address current problems. The CIO team faced challenges in identifying areas of improvements to reduce manufacturing lead time for the entire value stream that spanned into four distantly located companies within the Midwestern region of US. Two of the four companies are CFC vendors. The study was aimed at reducing cost as well as improving delivery time by eliminating WIP with significant reduction in MLT thus ensuring more timely shipments throughout the value chain.
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Papers by Jayaram Krishna