From Ragamala paintings to Hindi film songs: Spring as a Time for Love
The piece show how spring has been visualised as a narrative tool to show different stages of love–from yearning to the culmination of love
By Eshna Benegal ·
Issue 4
April 2026
Getting lost in the city
Running away from home and homecoming in Ritwik Ghatak’s Bari Theke Paliye (1959) are metaphors for the cataclysm of Partition
By Uttaran Das Gupta ·
The Impossibility of Middle-brow Hip-Hop
There is no real debate on hip-hop’s place within the general culture. Most think of hip-hop as being a low-brow art form and even many hip-hop fans do not attempt to defend hip-hop’s cultural status. Yet, all these analyses…
By Anthony David Vernon ·
Three Films: A note on Motion and Stillness
How do you see the world if you don’t move through it? Perhaps, you see it as it moves while you remain still.
By Atreyee Majumder ·
The Transcendental Cinema of Arby Ovanessian
If the spectator of Chechmeh could live the transcendental content of the film, the film itself could give the spectator the poetic depth that he/she wishes to see.
By Ramin Jahanbegloo ·