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Uttaran Das Gupta
Uttaran Das Gupta
Uttaran Das Gupta is a New Delhi-based writer and journalist. He teaches journalism at the OP Jindal Global University in Sonipat. A recipient of the prestigious Robert Bosch Media Fellowship and Chevening South Asia Journalism Fellowship, Das Gupta writes columns for Business Standard and The Wire. He is also the author of two books: 'Visceral Metropolis' (2017) and 'Ritual' (2020).
Uttaran Das Gupta is a New Delhi-based writer and journalist. He teaches journalism at the OP Jindal Global University in Sonipat. A recipient of the prestigious Robert Bosch Media Fellowship and Chevening South Asia Journalism Fellowship, Das Gupta writes columns for Business Standard and The Wire. He is also the author of two books: 'Visceral Metropolis' (2017) and 'Ritual' (2020).
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Blood and water: The strange link between CAA and a 1958 Bollywood classic
The contentious CAA and protests against it find echoes in Yahudi
 "Blood and water: The strange link between CAA and a 1958 Bollywood classic")
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
 "A flaneur in Old Delhi")
Frames per Second: Defending democracy
Woodward and Bernstein had described Watergate as an attack on American democracy. It seems too close home now
 "Frames per Second: Defending democracy")
A long journey
Mr Thackeray is not your regular bigot, claiming that people turn into cannibals by eating eggs or that caressing cows can cure cancer
 "A long journey")
Manmade crisis in God's Own Country
Book review of Flood and Fury: Ecological Devastation In the Western Ghats
 "Manmade crisis in God's Own Country")
Love, heartbreak, clutter
Reading it is like peeking into the darkened drawing rooms of old Bengaluru houses on a mild summer afternoon
 "Love, heartbreak, clutter")
Did Sandip, anti-hero in Ghare Baire, have a moral route for his struggle?
While both Ray and Tagore, from whose eponymous novel the film was adapted, seem to favour Nikhilesh, Sandip's 'perfect counterfoil', one wonders if Sandip has any need to follow a moral route
 "Did Sandip, anti-hero in Ghare Baire, have a moral route for his struggle?")
Ghazal & friendship
The decision to include an entire section of Urdu poems translated into English is also, in fact, a political move
 "Ghazal & friendship")
Rambling around Vienna, named the 'world's most liveable city' yet again
Uttaran Das Gupta recalls a few good reasons why
 "Rambling around Vienna, named the 'world's most liveable city' yet again")
Dalits' Harlem moment
Mr Yengde proceeds to reveal the deep-rooted and intricate nature of casteism prevalent in society through a mixture of personal recollections and erudite academic work
 "Dalits' Harlem moment")
Nostalgia unlimited
What one encounters in this slim volume is rare for a first book - a mature style, a confident voice, none of the fumbles of a younger poet's first book
 "Nostalgia unlimited")
Bookish nostalgia
For booklovers, of course, Old Delhi was a treat, but also for those planning to pick up stationary at a discount
 "Bookish nostalgia")
No news can come
On Friday, the BBC reported that many Indians were celebrating the decision of the Indian government to abrogate certain provision of Article 370
 "No news can come")
Frames per Second: Indeed, 'All of Kashmir is a prison, my friends'
Vishal Bharadwaj's Haider makes an appeal for peace by eschewing a politics of violence and revenge
 "Frames per Second: Indeed, 'All of Kashmir is a prison, my friends'")
Recollecting a massacre
Mr Halder has used the tool of oral narratives, which is becoming more and more popular among journalists and historians, especially for documenting atrocities against the disenfranchised
 "Recollecting a massacre")
Conversations about longing
It is unfashionable these days to imagine the narrative first person as that of the poet
 "Conversations about longing")
Poetry in Parliament
Does political poetry have any value at all?
 "Poetry in Parliament")
Frames per Second: Becoming Inspector Mike Lobo in a broken system
Govind Nihalani's 'Ardh Satya' takes an uncompromising look at how the system breaks down a police officer
 "Frames per Second: Becoming Inspector Mike Lobo in a broken system")
Learning to be vulnerable
As in almost all his novels, Mr Ghosh opens up new areas of discussion and debate
 "Learning to be vulnerable")