The Algebra of Belonging Published @ Biblio: A Review of Books Review of Barry O’Brien, The Anglo-Indians: Portrait of a Community’, Aleph Book Company, 2022), Cover of the Book… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Dec 31, 2022 | Tags: Community, History, law | Read More
শয়নে-স্বপনে সিনেমা (Sleeping, Dreaming Cinema) Published @ Anandabazar Patrika Review of Chidananda Dasgupta, Collected Prose, Vol 1 (Ed. Samik Bandyopadhyay). Dey’s Publishing. By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Dec 31, 2022 | Read More
Singer, Actor, Composer and Eccentric Published @ Wire Review of A Bhattacharjee and P Dhar, Kishore Kumar: The Ultimate Biography (HarperCollins, 2022). The Many Lives of Kishore… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Dec 7, 2022 | Tags: Biography, Cinema, Kishore | Read More
United by Spectacle Published @ Indian Express Nothing prepares us for the way we can have a stake in the agony and ecstasy of another country… Messianic… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Nov 19, 2022 | Tags: Football, globalism | Read More
Give me Bread Published @ Modern Poetry in Translation Translation of the Bengali poem Ruti Dao by Birendra Chattopadhyay… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Nov 10, 2022 | Tags: Modern Bengali Poetry, Translation | Read More
Out of the closet: A ‘Kesariya’ Kejriwal Published @ Deccan Herald AAP is taking a turn towards Hindutva, but can this rebranding help it give the BJP a run for its money? AAP Rally. File Picture. PTI… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Nov 5, 2022 | Tags: AAP, Hindutva, Kejriwal | Read More
খাওয়া না-খাওয়ার পালা (Optics of Plenty and Geography of Hunger) Published @ AnandaBazar Patrika প্রবল দারিদ্রের মধ্যে দাঁড়িয়েও মধ্যবিত্ত ভোগ প্রদর্শনে অকুণ্ঠ ‘ট্রায়াঙ্গল অফ স্যাডনেস’ ছবির দৃশ্য… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Oct 30, 2022 | Tags: Cinema, hunger, Photography | Read More
ইমেজের স্বরূপ (Godard and the Liberation of the Image) Published @ Desh Magazine শিল্প-বিপ্লব, ফটোগ্রাফি, ইমেজের নতুন ধারণা। এবং গোদার।… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Oct 17, 2022 | Tags: Auteur, Godard, Image, La Nouvelle Vague, Photography, Vertov | Read More
Playful, Poignant, Joyous and Melancholic Published @ TheWire.in Geeta in the shooting stills for Guru Dutt’s aborted Cinemascope film Gouri The her 50th death anniversary, it is a good time to recall Geeta Dutt’s prodigious talent which like a river, continues to flow on in our memories. By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Jul 20, 2022 | Tags: Cinema, Homage, Music | Read More
The Ends of Tragedy Published @ Critical Collective Screenshot, Critical Collective Journal Mapping the tragic form from its classical understanding to the present, the author remarks on how late capitalism has resulted in the idea of tragedy gradually becoming alien in mainstream Hindi cinema. … By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Jul 15, 2022 | Tags: cultural history, Popular Cinema, Tragedy | Read More