Prithu Halder

Doctoral candidate @IIT_Tirupati | RKM Narendrapur, Jadavpur University| Areas: Magical Realism, Avant Garde, Film Studies | Tweets on Art/Cinema/Literature

[Prithu Halder @PrithuHalder1]

@Ichanpyaari @surelymayb Hi @Ichanpyaari, I've inboxed you here on X for an important task. I'll be grateful if you can kindly respond to that. Thank you.

[Prithu Halder @PrithuHalder1]

Grateful! ✨

[DoHSS IIT Tirupati @HSSiittp]

✨The Dept. of HSS, @iit_tirupati, congratulates Mr @PrithuHalder1 and Dr @BibhutiKachhap on the publication of their article, “Ambushing the Indian Screen: Vernacularisation, Semiotic Tactics and Magical Realism”, in Bioscope (Vol. 16, Issue 2).
#IITTirupati #HSS #Research #IIT

[Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta]

Tollywood trade union is ‘bleeding’ Bengali cinema—forced hires, work limits, boycotts

Sreyashi Dey @SreyashiDey reports

#ThePrintGroundReport

https://t.co/VYS5Kc20nu

[Prithu Halder @PrithuHalder1]

Should be taught in the course work before one commences their PhD journey...

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

Hannah Arendt's syllabus for Thinking, taught in 1974

[Historical Materialism Journal @histmat]

- In honour of Fred Jameson, these articles have been temporarily unpaywalled:

Radical Fantasy
Author: Fredric Jameson
https://t.co/Fp4dPvw3ec

[Prithu Halder @PrithuHalder1]

Let's keep it in the timeline for the future's sake. What is "like Indian cinema" is the big question.

[Gayle Sequeira @gayle_sequeira]

"The jury felt that All We Imagine As Light is like a foreign film and not like Indian cinema. Laapataa Ladies represented the plight of the Indian woman. The swapping of brides due to their ghoonghat in a train is something that happens only in India."
https://t.co/zoCM5ezYBJ

[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

When Fredric Jameson turned 90, we published a series of blog posts in celebration of his prolific career. This includes contributions from Kristin Ross, Alberto Toscano, Anna Kornbluh, and many more. https://t.co/ysDkGOnPhV

[Critical Inquiry @CriticalInquiry]

All Fredric Jameson articles are now open access until the end of October.

https://t.co/BV532jyAc4

[Prithu Halder @PrithuHalder1]

The best way to pay tribute to a thinker is to read them.

Several of the journals have made Fredric Jameson's articles accessible. Go grab'em. I'll keep track of a few here.

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

We are working on a remembrance, but we cannot overstate the influence of #FredricJameson on Duke University Press. We have made his articles in our journals freely available through October 31. "Postmodernism" is our all-time bestselling book.
https://t.co/GW3u0d70VR

[Prithu Halder @PrithuHalder1]

@ahendrila_g The feeling is mutual!! @ahendrila_g

[Prithu Halder @PrithuHalder1]

Thanks a lot @sreepurnadatta! I really hope this course does justice to your kind words & satiate a few young hearts!

Resharing it again here on twitter. Those who're interested, please feel free to join. Enrollment is open now.

[Sreepurna @sreepurnadatta]

My friend @PrithuHalder1 is TA for this really exciting #NPTEL course on Indian popular culture. The undergrad version of me was desperately looking for the kind of content listed for Weeks 5-8. Glad this exists now! ✨ Registrations: https://t.co/9GlYvHNZr8

[Prithu Halder @PrithuHalder1]

Instead of the "Vernacular", we can adopt "Bhasha", as Prof. Meenakshi Mukherjee would have suggested in the context of literature.

[P. Sainath @PSainath_org]

1/5. Never mind the entries thrown up on google search, please stop calling Indian languages ‘vernacular.’ There’s a colonial context to the use of the word in the British Raj – from the older Latin origin: tongues of the home-born slave.
#britishraj #language #psainath

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of movie scenes inspired by art 🧵

1. Shutter Island - Klimt's Kiss

[Rochona Majumdar @RochonaMajumdar]

Dipesh Chakrabarty is awarded the 46th European Essay Prize on the occasion of the French translation of his latest essay Après le changement climatique, penser l'histoire (Paris: Gallimard, 2023).

[Prithu Halder @PrithuHalder1]

Keep Calm.
Read Spivak.
Watch 'American Fiction'.
Repeat.

[Prithu Halder @PrithuHalder1]

Wonderful thread. The thriving space for dissent and humour seems like things of a bygone era. Cartoonists are indeed the barometers of democracy.

[Prithu Halder @PrithuHalder1]

Mexican Artist Chavis Marmol destroyed a Tesla car with a 9 Ton Stone replica of an olmec head. The interaction between the antedeluvian vis a vis the contemporary is something to ponder upon.

[Prithu Halder @PrithuHalder1]

Beautiful 🌿

[Salmoli Choudhuri @DrSalmoliC]

Call me a hopeless romantic, but I had to stop and marvel at this rare and evocative sculpture of Tagore reading out his poem to Gandhi at the Mysore University.

[Prithu Halder @PrithuHalder1]

Kumar Sahani passed away yesterday, yet the media remains eerily silent. Ritwik Ghatak, too, departed alone, with few to witness his cremation. Director John Abraham faced a similar fate. The mainstream media's neglect of enfant terribles is truly striking. #RIPKumarSahani

[Prithu Halder @PrithuHalder1]

Couldn't resist sharing this beauty. Stanisław Lem's iconic sci-fi Solaris is getting published in Bengali. Kudos to @ju_press for bringing out such wonderful works in my mother tongue.

Along with this, Dubliners and Walter Benjamin's Berlin childhood around 1900 are in line.