Uttaran Das Gupta
@UttaranDasGupta
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Research scholar at Birmingham City University. Associate Professor of Practice (on leave), O P Jindal Global University.
Birmingham, UK
Joined March 2013
My review of Maya Nagari, a collection of stories on #Bombay/Mumbai, edited by Shanta Gokhale and Jerry Pinto in @LAReviewofBooks. @speakingtiger14.
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Uttaran Das Gupta reviews Shanta Gokhale and Jerry Pinto's anthology “Maya Nagari: Bombay-Mumbai, A City in Stories.”
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RT @liksamchan: Working on sexuality issues in Asia? 🌏🏳️🌈 I’m launching a new book series with Peter Lang—let’s chat! DMs open for ideas.….
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"Despite the advances. the world that women live in is still very different from the one men inhabit," writes British feminist Laura Bates, exploring how #GenerativeAI is severely aggravating #hatred against women. My review in @FinancialXpress.
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An empathetic exploration of how cutting-edge technology is being used for the patriarchal project.
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RT @TheBilalMoin: The @PenguinIndia Book of Poems on the Indian City, reviewed in @thewire_in by @UttaranDasGupta !.
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RT @thewire_in: Mapping Indian Cities, in Verse. 'The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City' is a fine attempt to draw a cartography of….
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'The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City' is a fine attempt to draw a cartography of the diverse and contrasting urban experiences in the country.
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RT @utterflea: "He was possibly the last of the multitalented men and women who ensured Bengal’s pre-eminence in art and culture. His caree….
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A new biography of one of the best Indian actors of the 20th century not only takes a deep dive into his stellar acting career but also explores the less appealing aspects of his life
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RT @IrigarayJulie: I was thrilled to have the opportunity to read my work at the @FestSerendipity alongside @UttaranDasGupta and @GregMLea….
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RT @ChawlaSwati: I am honoured to be selected as the Senior Fellow for Dalai Lama & Nalanda Studies (2025) with @furhhdl. My project, "A R….
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#WesAnderson will present #SatyajitRay's 1970 film Aranyer Din Ratri at #CannesFilmFestival2025. My column in @bsindia on the fun and games in Ray and Anderson filmographies. @janusfilms @FHF_Official .
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Wes Anderson's presentation of Satyajit Ray's Aranyer Din Ratri at Cannes and the shared memory game in Asteroid City reveal deep artistic parallels and tribute.
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RT @IrigarayJulie: I am lucky to be reading my poems at the Royal #Birmingham Conservatoire on 25th May as part of the the Serendipity Arts….
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RT @divkan1: Almost a year since my first book came out! Thank you to friends, colleagues, scholars, students, networks, strangers who invi….
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Contested Childhoods traces a complex history of caste, race, education, and Christian missions in colonial south India. It draws upon the vast Protestant Christian missionary archives of the London...
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Dalit cinema faces three layers of censorship — first, exclusion from an upper-caste industry; second, the official government machinery; and third from non-state actors. My column on rewatching Dr Ambedkar's 2000 biopic. @bsindia .
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The controversy over 'Phule', the recent biopic of Jyotirao and Savitribhai Phule, raises concerns over film censorship in India
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The films I discuss in this article are: Ek Din Pratidin (1979), Chalchhitra (1981) and Kharij (1982).
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Finally, it is out. My short article on what I call hashtag#MrinalSen's "second Calcutta trilogy" in the light of Edward Said's theorisation of "late style" and the leftist political context in India in the early years of the Left Front government.
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In 1977, the incumbent Congress government in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal was defeated by the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front
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RT @_saikatmajumdar: Happy to share that my website, is now updated with my latest writings, talks, book-excerpts,….
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Indian cinema has a new supervillain — Aurangazeb Alamgir, who has been featured in several films as the archetype of the Muslim tyrant. But what do our favourite villains tell us about ourselves? My column in @bsindia. #aurangzebcontroversy #Chhaava .
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The sixth Mughal emperor, Aurangazeb, is the hot villain in Indian cinema now. But what do our favourite villains say about us?
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It narrates the story of excursions that #Krittibas and #Hungry poets took to the forests to the west of Bengal in the 1950s, and the effect it had on their poetry.
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On International Forest Day (21 March), @oltraveller republished my piece, How Jharkhand's Jungles Respahed Bengali Poetry.
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International Day of Forests: Shakti Chattopadhyay was missing. His friends had no clue where he was. This was not unusual—Shakti liked taking off. But this tim
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