Samik Bandyopadhyay is one of the most significant theatre scholars and critics India has produced — Bengali, Kolkata-based, with decades of work spanning dramatic literature, film criticism, and cultural history. His scholarship on Tagore’s plays carries rare depth; he reads them not as literary texts secondarily staged, but as theatrical architectures with their own internal … Read more
The screen in your hand is not a lantern—it’s a singularity. We mistake the glow for freedom, but freedom doesn’t pull you inward. It doesn’t shrink your world to thumb-width. This is the civilizational black hole: no screaming, no fire—just gradual, gentle swallowing. One scroll, one like, one night lost to the feed. We aren’t … Read more
I had joined a ceramics mask-making workshop without expecting anything. But the moment they put the clay in my hands, I remembered making papier-mâché masks in my growing up days. For roughly two hours, my adolescent self took over completely. This is me, just after returning to reality, with the artifact in hand as proof … Read more