Sanjita Majumder

Asapconnect

11/22/2025

Reproductive Work and Sexual Labour: Mira Nair's India Cabaret

Mira Nair's India Cabaret (1985) is an early feminist documentary film that examines the sexual economy of Bombay's dance bars and prostitution.

Scroll.in

11/09/2024

How narcopolitics, racial capitalism work in Amitav Ghosh's 'The Ibis Trilogy' and 'Smoke and Ashes'

Ghosh makes visible the moral double standards prevalent in social discourses, especially regarding trading and profiting from an addictive drugs like opium.

Asapconnect

04/16/2025

The Afterlives of G. Aravindan's Thamp̄: Parallel Cinema and Spectatorship

Thamp̄ (1978) by Govindan Aravindan is a part-fictional observational documentary film following a travelling circus across a small coastal village of Thirunavaya in Kerala. Here, Aravindan sets the stage for a real-life encounter between members of the travelling circus troupe and villagers who have never witnessed a circus performance before.

Thefederal

01/19/2024

Tremor: Teju Cole's trembling reflections on blackness in the history of art

Teju Cole's novel works as an antidote for colonised subjects, those of us who find ourselves subsumed by a surge of existential nausea at museums and galleries in the West

Asapconnect

10/04/2023

Postcolonial Gestures: Cultural Transference in Creature

Asif Kapadia's cinematic capture of the gestures and choreographies of movements in Creature explores the terrain of fusing Indian classical forms with Western ballet.

Asapconnect

10/09/2023

Spectral Resurgence: Silent Cinema in Asif Kapadia and Akram Khan's Creature

Creature is a film devised under the impetus of "pure cinema", which emphasises technical exploration in the creation of a narrative, without the aid of speech, language or dialogue.

Thefederal

07/23/2023

While We Watched review: Ravish Kumar docu is an intimate portrait of journalistic courage

Vinay Shukla's documentary While We Watched envisions a political dystopia of television newsrooms and broadcast journalism in India. The film presents an intimate glimpse into the professional and...

Thefederal

11/05/2022

'All That Breathes' review: Shaunak Sen's timely exploration of climate change

A story of two brothers struggling to keep kites alive amid Delhi's deadly haze, the documentary explores the rise of air pollution and the rampant destruction of human and animal habitats in India

Thefederal

12/18/2022

'Novelist as a Vocation' review: How Murakami animates the surreal world of his fiction

In each of the 11 essays in Novelist as a Vocation, Haruki Murakami presents thoughts on the methodology and practice of fiction writing, giving us a glimpse into his inner psychic and creative...

Thefederal

10/11/2022

Annie Ernaux is an ethnographer of memories, a master of autofiction

In each of her works, Ernaux revisits her own hopes, dreams, and aspirations that are pitted against the challenges of pursuing a life of the mind and forging an academic career

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