ESSAYS 

Reading Mira Nair's 1985 feminist documentary as an early study in sexual economy tracing the lives of two bar dancers in Bombay through the lens of social reproduction theory and the politics of unwaged labour.

Reading Teju Cole's Tremor as a talisman against colonial amnesia, tracing its protagonist's encounters with race, Western art history and the psychic weight of the Black experience.

A review of Vinay Shukla's documentary on NDTV anchor Ravish Kumar  examining the collapse of broadcast journalism in India's largest democracy and one man's refusal to be dehumanised by it.

Reading Ernaux's The Years, Happening and A Girl's Story as interconnected works of autofiction tracing class, gender and memory across a lifetime of reinvention.

Amitav Ghosh's fiction and nonfiction in parallel examining how the opium trade illuminates the moral double standards of racial capitalism and the colonial origins of the global drug economy.

Part two of the Creature essay tracing the collision of Kathak and classical European ballet as a postcolonial encounter, reading Akram Khan's choreography through Satyajit Ray's Shatranj Ke Khilari and the cultural hierarchies embedded in gestural form..

A review of Shaunak Sen's award winning documentary reading the story of two Muslim brothers rescuing dying black kites in Delhi as both an ecological portrait and an oblique record of minority life under political siege.

On Aravindan's 1978 docufiction Thampū, screened at the Barbican's Rewriting the Rules programme examining the film's staging of a real life encounter between a travelling circus and a Kerala village as a meditation on spectatorship, ritual and collective experience.

Part one of a two-part essay on Akram Khan's Creature reading its use of pure cinema and gestural language as a return to silent film, where the body becomes the sole carrier of racial and colonial memory.

Reading Murakami's essay collection as a defence of the novelist's slow time tracing his journey from bestselling outcast in Japan to global literary figure, and what it reveals about creativity, endurance and the gatekeepers of culture.