Amrit Amlan Pattanaik

PhD Fellow @ Dept. of HSS, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus.
Film Studies & Visual Culture.

[Paromita Vohra @parodevi]

Happy and honoured to receive this time to think and work in a space devoted to discovery and excellence. Looking forward to a year in Bangalore and to new and enlivening encounters.

[Sight and Sound magazine @SightSoundmag]

“Cactus Pears radically expands the experiences that queer people have been permitted on Indian screens. The result is a luminous work, brimming with grace and delicacy”

Srikanth Srinivasan reviews, in cinemas 19 June. https://t.co/sENZv7eyZT

[Nandini Ramnath @nandiniramnath]

A terrific essay by Swarnavel Eswaran: Bharathiraja (1941-2026): The earth remembers its own https://t.co/wS5dHPl75c via @TheReel_in

[Neha Dixit @nehadixit123]

Shubhradeep Chakravorty's film 'In Dino Muzaffarnagar' was denied a censor certificate.
In 2015, several screenings of @nakulssawhney 's film, 'Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai' were not only disrupted but both Nakul & organisers were violently threatened by ABVP & other right wing goons.

[Neha Dixit @nehadixit123]

The withdrawal of Joe Sacco's book on the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots from Indian markets must be condemned. Unfortunately, films, articles and any discussion on Muzaffarnagar in the past were under attack too.

[Equator @Equatormag]

Joe Sacco spent years reporting on a communal riot in Uttar Pradesh for his new work of graphic reportage. But his Indian publisher abruptly dropped the book before it could be sold there. We have published an excerpt.

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

“My work is called ‘not really art’, ‘propaganda’, or ‘agitprop’ – there are many pejorative labels that attempt to create a hierarchy between high’ art and ‘low’ politics.” Anand Patwardhan in conversation with Scroll.

https://t.co/nvNtCVzihg

[Sanjay Sipahimalani @SanSip]

"It does make one wonder what kind of precedent this sets for artists and writers who take on the task of researching and truth-telling in India today."
@MehrotraIta on the proscription of Joe Sacco's 'The Once and Future Riot'.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Marjane Satrapi, the French Iranian author of the groundbreaking graphic memoir “Persepolis,” died last week. Hillary Chute examines how Satrapi made defiance into a lifelong project: https://t.co/nsQBvpPfii

[Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 @nilanjanaroy]

"Most people just want to live their lives, and they get caught up in shocking events not of their own making."

~ Joe Sacco on The Once and Future Riot

https://t.co/4yY17a57Bz

@PenguinIndia

[Chungking Archive @chungking151994]

A collection
- 16 films (31 GB)
- Various qualities with English subtitles wherever found
https://t.co/putxBU2w6o

[Siddharth @svaradarajan]

Anand Patwardhan’s Award-Winning Film ‘Father, Son and Holy War’ Removed From YouTube | @kachamangobite writes https://t.co/aSTi1SC90x via @thewire_In

[Sourya Majumder @DelhiSourya]

This film will be a must watch for understanding India today.

If Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai exposed the communal gameplan for launching RSS BJP into power, this film shows how ordinary people are figuring out that the Ambani Adani Raj can be defeated.

[anuradha raman @raman_anuradha]

A first for graphic novelist Joe Sacco as Penguin pulls plug on his book on Muzaffarnagar riots. Not Palestine, not Balkans but Muzaffarnagar https://t.co/j43Um8gpIG

[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

Why are so many of cricket's finest writers radicals and Marxists?
Richard Heller and I write for Tribune.
(It's a subject we touch on in Full Circle: A History of Cricket. Just published by Eliot and Thompson.)

https://t.co/emwLLJjgku

[Gianluca Costantini ★ @channeldraw]

Marjane Satrapi used to call me “Saddam”. And coming from an Iranian, that was definitely not meant as a compliment… She said I made her work too hard 🙂

These are some photos from the exhibition we organized in #Ravenna. I can say it was the only major exhibition in the world to feature the original Persepolis pages, and I am very proud of it.

We put everything together with very limited resources, and I still remember breaking my foot while dismantling it alone one night. It was 2003.

[MUBI @mubi]

Marjane Satrapi (1969 — 2026)

[NFDC-National Film Archive of India @NFAIOfficial]

For Ritwik Ghatak's centenary, NFDC-NFAI restored his entire filmography in 4K, graded by Avik Mukhopadhyay. Thrilled to partner with BFI! Starting June 2026, BFI Southbank hosts a retrospective curated by Sanghita Sen, featuring Subarnarekha (1965) and rare works.

[Uday Bhatia @yooday]

What a relief to write about a film that isn't running a fever. SHAPE OF MOMO is a quiet pleasure
https://t.co/v3UskMENCk

[G.Arunima @anuarunima1]

Do read Supriya Verma’s excellent piece on Shereen. Supriya herself is an outstanding archaeologist; her PhD was also supervised by Shereen.

Shereen Ratnagar Combined Academic Rigour With Rare Courage And Integrity https://t.co/WKO2XcriPQ via @thewire_In