Sumana Roy's #Provincials gets featured on The Hindu on Books Newsletter! thehindu.com/books/the-hind…
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“Sumana Roy’s writing brims with rare originality.”—Areeb Ahmad, The Medley

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'William Shakespeare was—let us admit it—a provincial'- Open Magazine features an edited excerpt from Sumana Roy's #Provincials .
Read here: openthemagazine.com/essays/in-prai…

Sumana Roy
Open Magazine

I finally found people who see the brilliance of this piece, who appreciate a good critique for what it is. Evening made!

And thank you Sumana Roy for writing this and how!

Lunch today:

Pointed gourd, from foraging

Pumpkin flowers -- I planted pumpkin seeds to grow pumpkins of course, but the greed for pumpkin flower fritters has taken over ...

Dear Urban Elites,
Women in villages can speak! Please listen!

#LaapataLadies is just lovely, but even better has been the scale & intensity of engagement it has provoked from lovers and critics alike.

Sumana Roy's in the The Indian Express today -- incisive, delightful & scathing, all at the same time -- is my favourite thus far 🌸🪻🪷

🌺 🌹 to this piece.

No matter how important and well-intentioned a film is, it is never above critique. I wish those who were dragging people who didn't like Laapataa Ladies read this perspective.

OMG this is such a brilliant article!

Wonderful piece by Sumana Roy. Loved reading it. indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

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'an Aamir Khan Productions version of the utopian Indian village imagined by those who have never lived in a village'. Fantasies of the rural have been a powerful propelling force for all kinds of activists and activism in India, from leftists to feminists (to queer, as I show).

Since I am not as articulate as the author, all I can say is: This perspective ❤️

Laapataa Ladies: A fantasy by those who have never lived in a village

indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

Sumana Roy articulating perfectly some of my discomforts with the film 🌻

Absolutely thrilled to find an entire section on Bhuwaneshwar in Sumana Roy’s moving and poignant homage to Indian provinces and provincials.

Sumana Roy, writing perceptively about what else apart from the ladies are laapata.

We loved #LaapataaLadies but essential to be aware of the ground reality.

Like Sumana Roy says in her article,
'.. a fantasy, an Aamir Khan Productions version of the utopian Indian village imagined by those who have never lived in a village'

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Insightful & engaging, I found this piece a necessary corrective to the overwhelming impression of how 'feel-good' the film is (for me too! I loved it).

Agree 100% that it's a fantasy vision of rural India but I would not say that patriarchy has been defeated/overcome in the end

Interesting reading by Sumana Roy. I enjoyed watching Laapataa Ladies. The point of engaging with popular cinema is to try to inspect what appeals to us about it. The contradiction is real; it must be sharpened with analysis.