Mainak Dutta

Research and practice in film/media/digital humanities. Fellow, EAP British Library and SCTR, Jadavpur University

[Poulomi Das @PouloCruelo]

Statement from 50 journalists and film critics condemning the censorship of SATLUJ and its removal from ZEE5 less than 48 hours after release.

We call for transparency, due process, and stand in solidarity with the film's makers.

[CinemaRare @CinemaRareIN]

From the director of Anhe Ghore Da Daan and Chauthi Koot..

#GurvinderSingh's new film #Rehmat to premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in the Concorso Internazionale section, this August.

Ft. Naseeruddin Shah, Suvinder Vicky, Diya Kamboj, Mita Vasisht, Harwinder Aujla, Jaswant Zafar, Navjot Randhawa, Anita Meet, Inder Bajwa, Sahej Aziz, Jasmanpreet Singh & Kavnoor Kaur.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

This was Javier Bardem at the Spain vs. Austria game. The man never misses a chance to speak up for Palestine 🇵🇸

[banojyotsna ... @banojyotsna]

Umar Khalid's interview in The Guardian
https://t.co/ZBaS7Y3lhL

[Mainak Dutta @Kinomainak]

@chhinnamul Mrinal sen met him, infact pictures are there.

[Mainak Dutta @Kinomainak]

@greend1sk Yess! Nobody talks about this filmmaker. Also his ott series Chotolok, that was a very credible work too.

[Mainak Dutta @Kinomainak]

@chhinnamul Ey baba, keno?

[Ramachandra Guha @Ram_Guha]

Umar Khalid’s brilliant PhD thesis has just been published as a book. It is a rigorously researched and richly readable history of Adivasis in Chotanagpur. May his cruel incarceration end soon, and Dr Khalid write more fine works of historical scholarship.
@juggernautbooks

[Moshik Temkin @moshik_temkin]

Carlo Ginzburg’s “The Cheese and the Worms” is one of the reasons I became a historian. The imaginative use of a dusty source, the recreation from scratch of one man’s mental universe, the profound empathy with those who came before us, the frightening power of reading.

RIP.

[Samyak Ghosh 🌈 @GhoshSamyak]

Carlo Ginzburg inspired generations of historians to think critically about language, archives, & the people in relation to history and historiography of the medieval and the early modern world. We are immensely indebted!

Read his words here! RIP, Carlo! https://t.co/FNonXidLAf

[Sumana Roy @SumanaSiliguri]

How many trees are there in the Mona Lisa? From Ways of Seeing to Ways of Treeing. My essay in the Indian Express today.
https://t.co/hUCbqxuPQn

[Jaffrelot Christophe @jaffrelotc]

With Marlène Laruelle I have just co-edited the latest special issue of the Journal of Illiberal Studies, where I analyse the case of Modi’s India
@CERI_SciencesPo @sciencespo @BASASofficial @afspinfos @IPSA @populismstudies @RFSP_revue @APSAtweets
https://t.co/6KynHwPepQ

[Reading@2000 @the7424]

For those interested in reading on the politics of history writing in modern india.

Personally for me nothing I have read has surpassed this underrated less talked of work. The most probable reason is that Lal is not interested in taking potshots but in understanding the past.

[Mainak Dutta @Kinomainak]

People in my list who are interested in DH and archives would find this a lovely read (in Bangla):

https://t.co/fHPJ2Ai3ru

[Mainak Dutta @Kinomainak]

@babumoshoy Where is this from?

[butch sontag @scorsissy]

and no ai storyboard will ever touch this