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Uttam Kumar: The Legend Lives On
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Four decades after his death, Bengal’s greatest star still commands a devotion that borders on the religious.
Uttam Kumar was revelatory in Satyajit Ray’s Nayak (1966), one of his most...
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The Money She Cannot Keep
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The Annapurna Bhandar scheme is meant to put money in women’s hands, but where husbands control the purse strings, it could become another source of domestic tension and violence.
Mariam’s...
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Childhood for Sale
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Khilawadi, a short fiction film directed by the young and sprightly Shobhita Thakur, alumnus of the FTII, Pune, is making news wherever the film is being screened. Why? The subject...
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The Pallbearer’s Tragedy
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Three decades after its premiere, Rangakarmee’s Mayyat remains a searing theatrical indictment of caste.
Rangakarmee is perhaps the only theatre group that has been producing and performing plays in Hindi...
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The New Face of Female Criminality
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The Siya Goyal case challenges familiar assumptions about gender, violence and the changing nature of crime in India.
Crime anywhere in the world, across time, culture and geography, has two...
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The Loneliness Within
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Pratyabartan is a new Bengali film which gets across the message about a “return to one’s roots” by an urban, upward-climbing neutral family who are settled in Kolkata. The film...
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A Death That Demands Answers
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The death of Twisha Sharma has reignited uncomfortable questions about dowry, domestic abuse and family power structures.
Last week, scrolling through some reels on my cell phone trying to find...
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The Cruel Economics of Menstruation
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From unpaid menstrual leave to clandestine hysterectomies, Beed district exposes the hidden violence of informal labour.
Sugar is not as sweet as you think, especially if it is coming from...
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Sexual Abuse, Silence and the Male Child
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India’s hidden crisis of abused boys has been sustained by stigma and toxic masculinity, resulting in victims being unheard and perpetrators going unchallenged.
“Sexual Abuse” is a term which is...
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A Series On Marital Rape
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Sadly, marital rape is not a punishable crime in India. More than half of the world’s countries do not criminalise sexual assault in marriage, including OECD countries like the Czech...
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Chekhov’s ‘Uncle Vanya’ come to Kolkata
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Anton Chekov is one of the most universally recognized playwrights in world theatre. ‘Bhanu’ is the Bengali adaptation and contemporisation of the original play first staged in 1899, two years...
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Caged Lives, Vanishing Wings
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Pinjar literally means “cage.” But the word can be expanded to mean more than a cage. In Rudrajit Roy’s debut film, the title refers both to birds, the bird-catcher and...
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