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On The Perfect Novel; A Short 2022 Dispatch
I only picked up this novel because a friend, a dearest friend, told me of a wedding toast where the book was quoted.
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September 2022

On 1970s Bombay Cinema; A Long Read
The Angry Young Man and the Thinking Woman, between parallel cinema and the thudding success of a mythological drama.
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August 2022

On The Satanic Verses
Thinking of Rushdie this Independence Day.
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April 2022

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.
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February 2022

On Gangubai Kathiawadi And Sex Work
Embedding the movie in the context of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's art-artifice
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On Gehraiyaan's Narrative Trickery
Digging deeper, looking at how the film uses death, infidelity, and trauma.
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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?
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January 2022

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…
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On Atrangi Re's Vanishing Act
Can we cringe from the very thing we crave?
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December 2021

On Hampi, A Travel Essay
Once the capital city of a thriving empire, this is how Hampi unfolded for me
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November 2021

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…
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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
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