In Bengal, worship, carnival, and art share the same streets for a few days each autumn. Durga Puja has not erased caste or commerce, but it shows how a society can hold the sacred and the secular in one public space.
Dorothy places a trans woman’s desire, identity, and capacity for love at the centre of a romance, challenging decades of stereotypical representation of transgender persons in Tamil cinema.
Cricket made Sobers a Caribbean icon, but it cannot contain the region’s history. Through film, Horace Ové, Michelle Mohabeer, and Rupert Roopnaraine studied indentureship, exile, and colonial rule, portraying the struggles behind the postcard image.
The newly inaugurated Museum of Word in Kolkata opens up the scope and range of how we think about the word, about language, and their role in society and human civilisation.