Rituparna Sengupta‘Joram’: A Tale of Many SuspensionsLast month, Adivasi poet and journalist Jacinta Kerketta turned down an award recognising her literary achievements, to protest the “lack…6 min read·Dec 22, 2023----
Rituparna SenguptaThe Many Kamaals of Ms. MarvelThere is much that the Disney+ miniseries Ms. Marvel has to offer to its South Asian viewers. There is the novelty of seeing a…5 min read·Aug 13, 2022----
Rituparna SenguptaShoebox: Of Memory and TransformationShoebox is a quiet and slow-paced film, which dwells on themes of memory, heritage, and culture. It is woven around a pravasi Bengali joint…5 min read·Dec 29, 2021----
Rituparna Sengupta‘Cycle’: Shifting Gaze on ViolenceThere is much to absorb in Devashish Makhija’s latest short film Cycle, a loose adaptation of his own short story ‘Butterflies on Strings’…6 min read·Dec 17, 2021----
Rituparna Sengupta‘Love sets us free, time kills us’The following is my translation of Geet Chaturvedi’s essay ‘Prem Humein Swatantra Karta Hai, Samay Humaari Hatya’, from the book Adhuri…9 min read·Nov 27, 2021----
Rituparna SenguptaFamily and Community in Jeopardy: ‘The Family Man’ S02 & ‘Mare of Easttown’Could two web-series from two different cultures and two different genres and completely different storylines be companion pieces to each…11 min read·Jun 8, 2021----
Rituparna SenguptaThe Climax of ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro’, or What Happens When Men Must Ditch the ScriptWhat challenge does a brief comic interlude sequence throw at the heart of a centuries-old narrative that never exhausts adaptation?7 min read·Jan 11, 2021----
Rituparna SenguptaOn Watching ‘Pavsacha Nibandh’ in Heavy MonsoonIt has been raining heavily all season here in Kolkata — a first Bengal monsoon for me. I have always been very fond of the rains…7 min read·Sep 15, 2020----
Rituparna SenguptaAmphanFor as far as I can cast my mind back to, I have always been thrilled by storms. It may have to do with the fact that I was born on a very…13 min read·May 22, 2020----