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Books & Films

September 2, 2020

The Healing Power of Poets

Read Time: 3 minutes Apart from giving poetry a healing power inherited by a religious text through ages, I consider poetry […]
August 15, 2020

Essential Indian Books on Freedom

Read Time: 6 minutes sbcltr recommends this quick list to brush up on your history   The End of India by […]
March 3, 2020

Behind A Modern Take On Indian Comics

Read Time: 4 minutes Yali Dream Creations comics might still be garnering niche audiences but depending upon its cinematic future, they […]
April 25, 2019

India’s Only Authentic Documentary Film Festival

Read Time: 2 minutes In a sleepy hamlet in Naukuchiatal, where the only noise is the hum of birds occasionally interrupted […]
December 18, 2018

I did not give a damn about anyone. I didn’t care and I don’t think I will care in future as well: Raj Amit Kumar

Read Time: 6 minutes His provocative directorial debut, Unfreedom may have been internationally released by Netflix but Raj Amit Kumar is […]
November 15, 2018

I got into an unreserved compartment in a train bound for Bombay and proceeded to make my past redundant: Devashish Makhija

Read Time: 8 minutes Shillpi. A. Singh caught up with the writer-filmmaker to talk about his journey as an artist and […]
August 29, 2018

Bearded Muslims as Terrorists, and Other Media Compulsions

Read Time: 4 minutes ABC’s apology for portraying a Hindu terrorist in Quantico begs the question: what decides the portrayal of […]
May 12, 2018

The Film That Explores A Different Gaze Of Sexual Orientation

Read Time: 3 minutes Rahul Desai writes about LOEV, the indie film that is currently streaming on Netflix which explores a different […]
May 3, 2018

This Man Has Been Hand Delivering Books Across Kolkata For 35 Years

Read Time: 2 minutes Tarun Kumar Shaw has been delivering books to people’s doorsteps for three decades on his scooter and […]
April 1, 2018

A Retrospective on The Lake Doc Fest 2018

Read Time: 2 minutes For me it was a very unique experience and I will definitely go again, says Priya Thuvassery […]
March 16, 2018

Recommended Reading: Diwali in Muzaffarnagar

Read Time: 5 minutes Tanuj Solanki’s writing on the nuances of small town India is sensitive, thoughtful and refreshingly original Over […]
March 9, 2018

Making Literature Accessible To All

Read Time: 4 minutes Priya Bhattacharji, spoke to Nithin Kundathil and Manoj Pandey, on their cool initiative, StickLit A movie character […]
February 10, 2018

The Obscure World Of C Grade Movies In India

Read Time: 5 minutes Ragesh Dipu, on how C grade movies give its audience an undogmatic and genuine portrayal of the […]
January 31, 2018

Annushka Hardikar Gives A Modern Day Twist To Mahabharata

Read Time: 4 minutes Disha Mukherjee spoke to the woman behind the zine that gives the women of the epic a […]
January 10, 2018

This Documentary Explores Nagaland’s Obsession With Japan

Read Time: 4 minutes sbcltr explores the obsession of Japan in Nagaland with filmmaker Hemant Gaba Last year, 35-year-old filmmaker Hemant […]
January 5, 2018

In Conversation with Reema Sengupta

Read Time: 6 minutes Priya Bhattacharji, caught up with the writer and director of the short indie, Counterfeit Kunkoo— the first […]
November 10, 2017

Diaries In Hindi Cinema

Read Time: 8 minutes Pankaj Sachdeva, on the narrative significance a journal can play in a film and how Bollywood uses […]
November 3, 2017

Meet the Filmmaker Who Is Finding New Ways To Connect People With Nature

Read Time: 4 minutes Priya Bhattacharji in conversation with Nitin Das aka Filmkaar, the creator of Healing Forest Project In Nature […]
October 30, 2017

Love Stranger Things? Then These Books Are For You

Read Time: 3 minutes Neha Pant on books that will keep your adventure going long after you have finished watching the […]
October 14, 2017

The Film Festival That is Taking Independent Cinema to the Himalayan Community

Read Time: 3 minutes Priya Bhattacharji on what makes the Dharmashala International Film Festival a must visit Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, not […]
September 14, 2017

Revisting Agha Shahid Ali’s The Country Without A Post Office

Read Time: 5 minutes The poet would be disappointed if he were to see Kashmir today, it is just as he […]
August 31, 2017

How Rupi Kaur Conquered Instagram

Read Time: 6 minutes Anamika Chatterjee attempts to dissect the reasons behind the poet’s phenomenal success Overthinking, typically, can lead to […]
August 19, 2017

This Man is Using Performance Art To Save Books

Read Time: 4 minutes Priya Bhattacharji talks to Udayan Chakravarty on his dramatic adaptations of classic literature Once Upon a Time […]
August 11, 2017

Revisiting Topi, the poignant film on partition

Read Time: 2 minutes There is a certain timelessness to this animated story of a young boy waiting to board a […]
August 9, 2017

Netflix Buys Millarworld Publishers To Bring Superheroes To Life

Read Time: < 1 minute The move is in a bid to get new customers hooked into their ever expanding video gallery, […]
August 4, 2017

A Small Indie From Shimla Could Make It to The Oscars

Read Time: < 1 minute Independent film-maker Sidharth Chauhan’s film, PASHI, has made it to the Oscar’s Qualifying Film Festival, writes Samarth […]
July 28, 2017

It’s Time Women Take Over Indian Cinema

Read Time: 2 minutes We want more movies on women and their sexuality, writes Supriya Raman Since Lipstick Under My Burkha […]
July 28, 2017

The Good, Bad And The Ugly: Life Of ‘A Secular Muslim’ In India

Read Time: 3 minutes Saket Suman reviews Seema Mustafa’s new book and discovers that it lays bare the many prejudices against […]
July 26, 2017

Stories of Kashmir’s Women

Read Time: 7 minutes Majid Maqbool spoke to Freny Manecksha about her new book that focuses on the women of the […]
July 24, 2017

O Henry In Indian Cinema

Read Time: 7 minutes Pankaj Sachdeva on how the American story teller shaped Bollywood William Sydney Porter was an American short-story writer. […]
July 17, 2017

Mumbai On Screen: A Retrospective

Read Time: 3 minutes Pranav Joshi on how the Visual Fabric of Urban Life in Bollywood has evolved with the city When films were […]
July 6, 2017

Why Everyone Should Read When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy

Read Time: 3 minutes When she writes, Kandasamy gives a voice to all the other women who face violence in their […]
June 24, 2017

How PK Nair Archived Bollywood

Read Time: 5 minutes The archivist put together the broken pieces of India’s first feature film and saved it and the […]
June 10, 2017

Andrei Tarkovsky and Endurance of The Mirror

Read Time: 4 minutes Forty years on, the film continues to captivate and induct new members into its cult like following, […]
June 2, 2017

Bollywood’s Weird Parent Obsession

Read Time: 11 minutes Pankaj Sachdeva writes on the Oedipus Complex in Hindi films  The great Sigmund Freud, considered to be […]
June 1, 2017

This Publishing House Only Prints Books During The Full Moon

Read Time: 2 minutes Tunglið, is a one-of-a-kind imprint that only to life during the end of each lunar cycle to […]
May 27, 2017

Dangal Beats Baahubali To Create History In China

Read Time: 2 minutes Aamir Khan’s Dangal is the only foreign movie in China that isn’t made in English or Chinese […]
May 27, 2017

Indies You Can’t Miss

Read Time: 2 minutes sbcltr lists down the best independent movies so far Despite censor certificate dramas and the stiff competition […]
May 24, 2017

Interview with Documentary film-maker and publisher Sanjay Kak

Read Time: 8 minutes In an interview with Majid Maqbool, Kak spoke about the making of Witness, a unique collaborative photo book […]
May 18, 2017

S.Chandramohan’s Poems Of Dalit Resistance

Read Time: 5 minutes Rohini Kejriwal, speaks to the young poet on his identity, politics of writing and his inspirations The […]
March 25, 2017

Unreserved: A Documentary on Indians who Travel

Read Time: 3 minutes Alice Sharma, speaks to filmmaker Samarth Mahajan, who travelled for 17 days, across 12,000 kilometre to record […]
November 10, 2016

Reviving Urdu: Khwaab Tanha Collective

Read Time: 4 minutes sbcltr speaks to Shiraz Hussain, the man who is single-handedly reviving the love for Urdu literature in […]