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On The Film That Must Not Be Named
To tell a story of violence, you have to have an unusual sensitivity to not replicate that same violence, that same poison.
Prathyush
Apr 25
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On Gangubai Kathiawadi And Sex Work
Embedding the movie in the context of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's art-artifice
Prathyush
Feb 28
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On Gehraiyaan's Narrative Trickery
Digging deeper, looking at how the film uses death, infidelity, and trauma.
Prathyush
Feb 14
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On The Lata Mangeshkar (1929-2022) Debates
The singer who began her career in 1942 passed away yesterday. How to produce a coherent, complex, and meaningful articulation of her legacy?
Prathyush
Feb 7
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On Nostalgia For The College Days
Hridayam, a Malayalam film, asks you to participate in its project of eliciting nostalgia, even if it does so with shameless, predictable genre…
Prathyush
Jan 24
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On Atrangi Re's Vanishing Act
Can we cringe from the very thing we crave?
Prathyush
Jan 17
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On Hampi, A Travel Essay
Once the capital city of a thriving empire, this is how Hampi unfolded for me
Prathyush
Dec 6, 2021
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On Crying In Theaters
The week before I watched Chloé Zhao’s Eternals and read Amitava Kumar's A Time Outside This Time and I have not felt more grateful and more afraid of…
Prathyush
Nov 22, 2021
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On Sooryavanshi's False Hope
Josy Joseph's book "The Silent Coup" destabilizes everything Sooryavanshi is trying to do and say
Prathyush
Nov 8, 2021
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On Frustrating Desire
Scenes From A Marriage and Giovanni's Room paint desire as it is — frustrating, ambivalent, contradictory, necessary.
Prathyush
Oct 18, 2021
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On Squid Game's Geopolitical Shift
How should we think about the ongoing cultural tilt? With pride as the balance shifts East, or as Tagore would, with worry?
Prathyush
Oct 11, 2021
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On Indian-Indian Literature
Observations from Ghachar Ghochar, translated from Kannada, and Name Place Animal Thing, set in Shillong
Prathyush
Oct 4, 2021
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