Jasdeep Singh

code writer, film writer, translator | words in @TrolleyTimes @scroll_in @CafeDissensus | curator @_kirrt_ &

[Jasdeep Singh @jasdeep]

Kirrt - a project to honour the kirrtis and kirrts - the craftsmen and the crafts, artists and artworks of Punjab. https://t.co/7T4pjRV1gl https://t.co/K66JnxmUlz

[Nakul Singh Sawhney @nakulssawhney]

In 2015, ABVP workers violently halted the screening of my film, ‘Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai…’ in Delhi University. Soon after, Cinema of Resistance gave a call to organise protest screenings against the violation of freedom of expression. Several hundred people across the (1/n)

[Nakul Singh Sawhney @nakulssawhney]

Two other very important films that come to my mind to understand other aspects of those times in Panjab are Anand Patwardhan’s ‘In the Memory of Friends’ and ‘Punjab 1984’ by Anurag Singh.
Also, though not directly about this era, Ajay Bhardwaj's Panjab trilogy (9/n)

[Praveen Swami @praveenswami]

Ever since the Satluj debate began, I’ve been thinking about an article the lawyer KTS Tulsi wrote. Tulsi recalled asking a father why he’d refused to identify his own son’s murderer in court. The father said: “I have another son.”

The killer walked free.

[Namrata Joshi @Namrata_Joshi]

Punjab1984 won the national award, so did Gulzar’s Maachis. The ban on Satluj has been reiterated by the govt panel. What changed from 1996 to 2014 to 2026? If you’ve been covering cinema for decades you’d know censorship is nothing new. I’d have amassed most bylines on it 1/n

[Kegham Balian @kbalian90]

BREAKING: U.S Democratic Representative Ro Khanna has become the first American congressman in history to be detained by Israeli settlers while on a visit to the West Bank.

[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.

[Jasdeep Singh @jasdeep]

Rehmat to screen at Locarno Film Festival in the Main Competition. World Premiere on 6th August.

Directed by Gurvinder Singh
Based on stories by Ajit Caur
Starring Naseeruddin Shah, Suvinder Vicky, Mita Vasisht, Navjot Randhawa, Diya Kamboj, Harvinder
https://t.co/YHXF12EbIa

[Rahul @notself]

Gurvinder Singh has made two great films about Punjab: Anhe Ghore Da Daan (2011), on the plight of Dalit farmers, and Chauthi Koot (2015), based on two short stories set in Punjab in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star.

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

So many incredible storylines at the World Cup but the stoicism and dignity of this man’s tribute to a national leader assassinated with the connivance of the CIA is maybe my favorite

[Jaffrelot Christophe @jaffrelotc]

The first copies of a book that is a huge collective endeavour have just arrived! We show here that in many religious places Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists & still others continue to interact today. Why and how? @HurstPublishers @MikeDwyerMike @karthikavk @BASASofficial

[Vali Nasr @vali_nasr]

I highly recommend Daniyal Moeenuddin’s excellent new novel This Is Where the Serpent Lives. With its lucid prose, great storytelling and rich cast of characters of zamindars, their enforcers, and surfs it is one you won’t put down. It is a great portrait of Pakistani politics and rural life.

Richard Holbrooke would give a copy of his collection of short stories In Other Rooms Other Wonders to all AfPak principals, including Obama, as introduction to #Pakistan.

https://t.co/enhcvL06ic

[Jasdeep Singh @jasdeep]

@TurbulentTamizh https://t.co/qFCnCna8Vj https://t.co/gjTRDwd3vs https://t.co/CD4hv5MrFr, https://t.co/XsH7ayUfUG, Frontline, Hollywood Reporter India

[Divya Ravindranath @divyarrs]

There are many ways to read a city. Here’s a postcard mapping Mumbai through women’s writing (fiction) — stories that take us across trains, apartments, overbridges, memory, intimacy, labour, migration, ambition, and everyday life. 1.

[Eshan Sharma @iameshansharma_]

I will tweet a formal recommendation tomorrow. Today i am getting back to John Berger. Translated in Hindi (much needed) by @RajkamalBooks ! Consider this my on-the-go recommendation. Ways of Seeing.

[Härkönen @yokaihainen]

Finland has solved the problem of AI use in literature, the same way it solves every problem: through unionization.

You literally are not a writer in Finland if you're not part of the Union of Finnish Writers. To be considered eligible, you must have published at least two independently authored literary works in Finnish, and be "writerly" at the "artistic and professional level of your output", in other words, to have been received well by the critics and not to have misbehaved too badly at the parties.

Just weeks ago, the union issued a decree stating that in the face of the proliferating use of AI in writing and related scandals abroad, no member is allowed to write without supervision: writing may only be done in the presence of at least two senior union members, and only in longhand.

The policy seems to be a success in that there have been no local scandals so far, but writer responses to the rule have been varied: some say that they can't live like this, others that it's a great perk to get live feedback from senior colleagues they admire, even if it's in the form of various grunts, groans or smiles as they watch over their shoulders.

[Chris Sosa @ChrisSosa]

Mamdani is winning the public perception game as mayor in a way I didn't expect as a supporter. "Hard worker who really cares" is how a Cuomo voter described her view to me this week. Talked to a nonvoter who "didn't like my choices" yesterday. His view now? "I like Mamdani."

[CinemaRare @CinemaRareIN]

. @MiraPagliNair unveils the first look of her next #Amri, a tribute to Amrita Sher-Gil, whose fearless vision transformed modern Indian art.

Featuring. #AnjaliSivaraman as Amrita with #EmilyWatson @JaideepAhlawat @jimSarbh #AnjanaVasan #KrisztiánCsákvári & @priyankachopra.

[Jasdeep Singh @jasdeep]

@HVSBanwait @simrankaurgilll @Jatindermauhar Not streaming unfortunately.

[Satyanand Nirupam @satya_nirupam]

“Visual history is more important than making pretty and fine art photography. History is always written and is even being rewritten. But photo history cannot be rewritten.”
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[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

In 2015 I got the opportunity to interview Raghu Rai saab for a children’s magazine. It was a lesson in simplicity of thought and craft.