Page 3 - Uttaran Das Gupta

Frames per Second: Banality of Law

Chaitanya Tamhane's Court has eerie echoes for our contemporary times

Montage of a Bollywood legend

Book review of A Patchwork Quilt: A Collage of My Creative Life

Essential anthology

Book review of The Book of Indian Essays: Two Hundred Years of English Prose

A Pakistani in Bangladesh

This book is a great addition to the already rich literature on 1971 and its aftereffects

Frames per Second: The long walk home-2

The government has extended the Covid-19 lockdown - but provided little succour to the most vulnerable

The language of Delhi

Katyal, as his many fans would already know, also creates a queer map for Delhi

Frames per Second: So easy to kill a man

As uneasy calm settles on Delhi, there is little hope for sprouting love like between Mr and Mrs Iyer

Brands, good and bad

Apple does not allow bad characters in films to use its iPhone

Root poetry

Mohanty's book brings us to darkness and end, but gently

Poetry at Shaheen Bagh

At Shaheen Bagh - or similar protests across the country, such as at Park Circus in Kolkata - women have emerged as the face of the protests

Linguist's love

The act of love, writes Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski in Towards a Poor Theatre, involves making oneself vulnerable; so does the act of theatre - or in fact any art, including poetry

Frames per Second: Remember Derozio, enfant terrible of Bengali Renaissance

An almost forgotten Bengali film casts light on the current turmoil on campuses

Remember Safdar

n recent times, it has also become very fashionable to call people "anti-national" if they are critical of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government or its policies

Bridges to Kabul

The book is cyclical - the last chapter of the book is called "Returns", like the first one

Poetic protests

The nationwide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 has led to an outpouring of poetry

Frames per second: The Spectre of the camps

Research has shown most Germans were well aware of what was going on at the detention centres

Blood and water: The strange link between CAA and a 1958 Bollywood classic

The contentious CAA and protests against it find echoes in Yahudi

Misfits matter

In his debut collection, Mumbai-based journalist and poet Suhit Kelkar has channelled Greek myths to indulge in a sort of personal mythopoeia

A flaneur in Old Delhi

Shahjahanabad is divided into 18 parts, describing the construction of the fort, originally known as Qila-e-Mubarak, Chandni Chowk, Chawri Bazar, Jama Masjid, Khari Baoli

Frames per Second: Defending democracy

Woodward and Bernstein had described Watergate as an attack on American democracy. It seems too close home now