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
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
Stuck in Stereotype and Slapstick Published @ Indian Express Narayan Debnath’s comic world was rich, but full of stilted, repetitive adolescent pranks and clichés. By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Jan 24, 2022 | Tags: caricature, Comics | Read More
Life is elsewhere Published @ Art India By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Oct 1, 2015 | Tags: Photography, Review | Read More
Sights and Sites Published @ Art India By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Jan 1, 2015 | Tags: Photography, Review | Read More
The city of continuous contrasts Published @ Art India Clyde Waddell. Street scene with shoeshine boys outside the New American Kitchen, Calcutta. Gelatin silver print. 8″ x 10″, 1946. Image courtesy Aakriti Art Gallery… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Jan 1, 2015 | Tags: Calcutta, Review | Read More
Camera Femina Published @ Art India First Lady Cyclist… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Aug 1, 2014 | Tags: Gender, Photography, Review | Read More
The final frontier Published @ Art India By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Jan 1, 2014 | Tags: Nature, Photography, Review | Read More
Between escape and entrapment Published @ Art India Pablo Bartholomew. Boy jumping off the roof of the Chinese Temple, Tangra, Calcutta. [1978]… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Mar 1, 2013 | Tags: Calcutta, Photography, Review | Read More
Shot on location Published @ Art India Nemai Ghosh. Ray on the beach while shooting the documentary Bala [1976] Nemai Ghosh. A still from Satyajit Ray’s Jana Aranya [1975] Nemai Ghosh. A still from Satyajit Ray’s Ghare-Baire [1984]… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Mar 1, 2013 | Tags: Review, Satyajit Ray | Read More