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    • From Ragamala paintings to Hindi film songs: Spring as a Time for Love

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      May 4, 2026

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      The piece show how spring has been visualised as a narrative tool to show different stages of love–from yearning to the culmination of love

      From Ragamala paintings to Hindi film songs: Spring as a Time for Love
    • Getting lost in the city

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      April 17, 2026

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      Running away from home and homecoming in Ritwik Ghatak’s Bari Theke Paliye (1959) are metaphors for the cataclysm of Partition

      Getting lost in the city
    • The Impossibility of Middle-brow Hip-Hop

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      April 12, 2026

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                     There is no real debate on hip-hop’s place within the general culture. Most think of hip-hop as being a low-brow art form and even many hip-hop fans do not attempt to defend hip-hop’s cultural status. Yet, all these analyses are limited. Hip-hop is neither found in the sole domain of high-brow art or low-brow…

      The Impossibility of Middle-brow Hip-Hop
    • Three Films: A note on Motion and Stillness

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      April 7, 2026

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      How do you see the world if you don’t move through it? Perhaps, you see it as it moves while you remain still.

      Three Films: A note on Motion and Stillness
    • The Transcendental Cinema of Arby Ovanessian

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      April 3, 2026

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      If the spectator of Chechmeh could live the transcendental content of the film, the film itself could give the spectator the poetic depth that he/she wishes to see.

      The Transcendental Cinema of Arby Ovanessian
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