Gail & Bharat (Official Trailer) Prachi Patankar Begumpura Productions youtu.be/ElxmgvKgERo?si…

Just out, by TITHI BHATTACHARYA Tithi Bhattacharya “The best account I have yet read of the enchanted and uncanny world of stories and beliefs that Bengalis like myself grew up in” Amitav Ghosh "strikingly original study" Sudipta Kaviraj Details on our website!

Like Little Fugitive before and Aakhri Khat after, Ritwik Ghatak's Bari Theke Paliye is a child-in-mild-peril film with incredible naturalistic city shooting. There's also this charming song by Salil Chowdhury

Nearly 30 years after its making, A Tryst with the People of India remains a phenomenal archive of the lives of Bahujan Indians and the ideas of elite Indians. A refreshing, enlightening, somber watch for an Independence Day evening. kikumbhar.medium.com/tryst-people-i…

#NewPublication A Sea of Wealth The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace Nicholas Paul Roberts. Univ of California Pr 2025 ucpress.edu/books/a-sea-of… degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1… case.academia.edu/NicholasRobert…

If you're in Kolkata, and have some time, please do come.

ये किताबें पढ़कर इतिहास के सारे बवाल समझ आ जाएंगे! #BookRecommendations Rohit

When Shabdakalpa goes live in 2028, it will also serve as a launchpad, propelling Bengali language studies into the digital future – and, ideally, inspiring similar archives and initiatives for the Subcontinent’s many other languages Ankush/অঙ্কুশ writes: himalmag.com/culture/shabda…

Announcing 'The Cambridge Companion to #Periyar', a landmark work & our foremost publication in 2025. Developed over several years with an exceptional team of editors A R Venkatachalapathy ஆ.இரா. வேங்கடாசலபதி & Karthick Ram Manoharan & contributors, it brings critical insights on the modern thinker's ideas & legacy

Our warmest congratulations to Mridula Ghosh on being awarded the Order of Merit, 3rd class by President Zelenskyy on Ukraine’s Independence Day. Ghosh's Bengali translation of the poems of Taras Shevchenko, Ukaine's greatest poet, has been recently published by JUP.

IDSK is also offering a seven-day phd proposal writing workshop for students in 4th year of b.a. programme/doing m.a./recently completed m.a. take a look! idsk.edu.in/wp-content/upl…

Audrey Truschke's book, India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent, tries to make sense of the subcontinent's history, writes Lakshmi Subramanian. #book #review #SouthAsia #subcontinent #history Uddalak Mukherjee Dr. Audrey Truschke Princeton University Press telegraphindia.com/books/india-ma…

So grateful for a terrific artwork that captures Ornit Shani and my argument. Out this month Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚.

Partha Chatterjee’s For a Just Republic will change the way we study Indian politics. He locates the enduring crisis of the Indian state in the tension between two layers: the “nation-state” — the formal state apparatus we inherited from the Raj — and the “people-nation” — the

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Partha Chatterjee’s Style of Building Theory Through Granular Histories Reflects in His New Book m.thewire.in/article/books/… via @thewire_In

BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

László Krasznahorkai! If you're looking for a place to start with his work, we ran a beautiful, discursive, surprising story of his in the The Yale Review earlier this year: yalereview.org/article/kraszn…