deepanjana
deepanjana
author & journalist
 
 

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this the online home of author and journalist
Deepanjana Pal

 
 
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Blog
A culture of politics
A culture of politics

If your time to you is worth savin', then you better start swimmin'. Or you'll sink like a stone. For the times they are a-changin'.

Ping Pong and Pico Iyer
Ping Pong and Pico Iyer

Pico Iyer has a new book, and it’s a thing of melancholy and ping pong.

Cutty Snark: Made in Heaven
Cutty Snark: Made in Heaven

In which I, as usual, find myself growling angrily about something that everyone seems to love.

Fury, Captain Marvel, desi boys and more
Fury, Captain Marvel, desi boys and more

Captain Marvel isn’t the best film of Marvel’s franchise, but it might well be the most thoughtfully-written script of the Avengers narrative.

An Indiscreet Love for Romance
An Indiscreet Love for Romance

When a romantic comedy made in 2019 makes you remember a romantic comedy from 1958 for its boldness, it’s time for a (long) post.

Cutty Snark: Ek Ladki Ko...Four More Shots Please
Cutty Snark: Ek Ladki Ko...Four More Shots Please

From lesbians being overshadowed by men to obsessed women in Mumbai, reel life is tough on the ladies.

Connecting Threads at Bhau Daji Lad Museum
Connecting Threads at Bhau Daji Lad Museum

Somehow, this ended up being 3,000-odd words. It was just supposed to be a quick overview. On the plus side, contains pictures.

Cutty Snark: "That Little Snake"
Cutty Snark: "That Little Snake"

Simryn Gill’s Soft Tissue, Atul Dodiya’s Seven Minutes of Blackmail and the imagination.

Mary Poppins Returns/ Roma: A Tale of Two Nannies
Mary Poppins Returns/ Roma: A Tale of Two Nannies

Two films, two nannies, one critic. Let the analysis begin.

Cutty Snark: Zero and male privilege
Cutty Snark: Zero and male privilege

There is a reason the new Shah Rukh Khan film is titled Zero.

 

snapshots

Pink.
Juhu morning 2.
Juhu morning.
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Watching Bijoyini Satpathy dance is like witnessing a miracle. She’s so incredibly strong — not even a part of a muscle moves involuntarily — and utterly graceful as she moves from character to character, rasa to rasa. Plus at Sankhya 2019, Sujay Saple used the very basic lights to glorious effect, throwing gigantic shadows on the walls at one point and at another, making her glow on stage like a live ember. Move the earth to see Bijoyini dance because she is that brilliant.
Peek-a-boo
Blue print.
Finally! @curatorsofclay’s blush plate is mine! Now to put some food on it.
 

short stories

"The satiny material of her burkha shone where it caught the sunlight. It stretched, dipped, billowed and moulded against her body because of the wind. The magnifying glass inched down her form, past the arc of her covered head, along the fluid lines of wind-puffed material. Hadpude didn’t blink. He just looked. His eyes travelled from head to toe, from photo to photo."

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