Reviews


“No Sasikala, please”
On the filmic representation of Jayalalithaa and what is lost in translation.
Lucky Issar | Mar 11, 2022

Colonial continuities of the ‘good coloniser’
In ‘Unsettling Utopia’ Jessica Namakkal interrogates French occupation of India.
Sohel Sarkar | Feb 09, 2022

Crowd potential
Deconstructing the complex relationship between people and state in Bangladesh.
Arif Sohel and Anupam Debashis Roy | Dec 27, 2021

The global branding of caste
Isabel Wilkerson’s recent book fails to unpack caste, but hints at potential for new solidarities.
Bernardo A Michael and Anil Varghese | Dec 01, 2021

Against forgetting. Against erasure.
On meaning, storytelling, and memory-making in Kashmir.
Shivangi Mariam Raj | Nov 11, 2021

Requiem for a remembrance
A review of 'A Passage North' by Anuk Arudpragasam.
Khorshed Deboo | Oct 26, 2021

There is something about Parveen
The cultures of fame, shame, and fear in Bollywood’s tryst with mental health.
Pooja Pande | Sep 10, 2021

The quintessential prey
Care, coexistence and predation in a recent Hindi film on human-animal relations.
Megnaa Mehtta | Jul 26, 2021

Bordered by violence
On borders and maps as concrete sites of state violence.
Sohel Sarkar | Jul 20, 2021
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