Lost and Found: Notes from a Migrant’s Diary
Cities are not structures that catch people in motion and create some sense out of its…
The Revolution Will Not Be Contextualised
The modern intellectual must engage with the masses they speak for, says Soumabrata Chatterjee. After all,…
The Free Radical
Ismat Chughtai reformulated the discipline of female writing and the role and social positioning of the…
Turning the Tables
Sujoy Ghosh’s much-hyped short film fails because he misses the cultural nuances of the myth of…
Hear Me Roar
Films like ‘Queen’, ‘English Vinglish’, ‘NH10’ and ‘Mary Kom’ are a part of the current upsurge…
The ‘Un-Human’ Internet
Why does the much talked-about politics of sharing fall apart when it is applied to the…
Leaving Ladyland
Refashioning a fight for survival into a politics of co-habitation has been feminism’s greatest triumph, writes…
Violence re (viewed): Badlapur and NH10
Soumabrata Chatterjee investigates the changing trends of violence in Indian cinema. There is now a delineation…
A cartoonist’s utopia
Soumabrata Chatterjee reminisces about R K Laxman and the role of a public intellectual in shaping…
Travelling between genres with Amit Chaudhuri
Soumabrata Chatterjee talks to Amit Chaudhuri about travelling between genres, being a flaneur, and lots more….