Basav Biradar

Writer, Film maker, Film Researcher, Associate Professor
words in @the_Hindu @Mint_Lounge @thecaravanindia @FilmCompanion @thenewsminute @NGTIndia @openthemag

[Basav Biradar @BasavBiradar]

I wrote a profile of the playwright and theatre director Abhishek Majumdar for @thecaravanindia .

Statutory warning: It is a long read.
https://t.co/dpI01RPLuS

[Basav Biradar @BasavBiradar]

@nefertitillated Yup. He should have traveled. And no, I don't think he would have lost his job, he would have just worked from India for a few months. Many have done that recently. Its stupid to even think twice about such a thing.

[Basav Biradar @BasavBiradar]

@VinodEkbote Thank you sir. Will try to find a copy in a local book store.

[Priya Satia @PriyaSatia]

Instead of worrying that humanities degrees don’t prepare students for jobs in today’s world [product managers finance consultants startups], we should worry that we’ve created a world with such little value for literature, art, philosophy—anything that expresses the human soul

[Basav Biradar @BasavBiradar]

@authormadhulika sounds exciting.

[Basav Biradar @BasavBiradar]

@_saikatmajumdar And Pratidwandi in response to criticism of lack of explicit engagement with politics in his work.

[Basav Biradar @BasavBiradar]

@_saikatmajumdar Interesting and well known among film fraternity... he made Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne as he wanted to make a commercial hit

[aesopsnightmare2.o @prathahahaha]

omg nivedita menon-spivak beef how did i not know about this

[mayank austen soofi—InshaJoyce @thedelhiwalla]

“When people hurl abuses at me, I tolerate the insults. I know my status in Delhi. I’m a pardesi, I’m not from this city, so better to stay out of trouble”… my Proust Questionnaire with a fellow citizen, please read.

[Saikat Majumdar @saikatmajumdar.bsky.social @_saikatmajumdar]

Delighted to see the new Oxford World’s Classics edition of the Selected Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore, edited by Sumit Chakrabarti, with three stories translated by me: "The first look", "The Tutor", "The Painter". Some translation confessions below.

[Idrees Ahmad @im_PULSE]

J.M. Coetzee is a magnificent writer. And, naturally, his rejection of an invitation to a literary festival in Israel is also magnificent. Brief and unsparing.

[Basav Biradar @BasavBiradar]

@MirzaWaheed Congratulations Mirza! Looking forward to watching this.

[Mad Milton @PhilipPanass]

Quite impressive how effectively R. Mahalakshmi of CHS, JNU runs her own cottage industry. Eleven of the thirteen contributors—and both her co-editors—completed their MPhil or PhD under her supervision :-) (1/n)

[Dead Wrong History @deadwronghist]

In 1965, Nabokov was asked to name the great novels of the 20th century.

He opened by explaining why Faulkner, Mann, and Pasternak didn't qualify.

Then named the four that did.

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Out now!
In his last, profoundly innovative work, one of India’s finest minds, D.R. Nagaraj, engages with the life & ideas of the 12th-century Shaiva mystic & philosopher-poet Allama Prabhu.
Transl into English by the noted Kannada critic N.S. Gundur. https://t.co/Etiih6aqDr

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"Their richly observed studies now form the bedrock for any serious social history of imperial service not only in Mughal India but also across the Islamic world...The first study of its kind for Mughal India..." Rosalind O Hanlon reviews Mirrors of Empire in IESHR.

[Tigmanshu Dhulia @dirtigmanshu]

Celebrating Irrfan through A Story That Refused to Die, a documentary capturing the incredible journey of making Paan Singh Tomar. With nearly lost footage, it screens for the first time after 14 years at NMACC on 29th April 2026, 8 PM.
Trailer out now

[Rohit @itihaasnaama]

New Bangla translations to English incoming

[Basav Biradar @BasavBiradar]

@appadappajappa @WeAreRangDe All the best for your next innings. I remember I got to know you from Rang De