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3 weeks ago | 
karnataka.thefederal.com | Amit Sengupta
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4 weeks ago | 
lokmarg.com | Amit Sengupta
While restless bursts of rain are hitting the clogged streets of Mumbai and the lush green landscape of beautiful Kerala, the rain clouds and cool wind from the foothills of a fragile and damaged Himalaya have arrived in the capital. It is seductive and sensuous, but as deceptive as always. For one, it kills the simmering summer heat, for a while, but just for a while. And it seems as elusive as everlasting love.
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4 weeks ago | 
thefederal.com | Amit Sengupta
Sebastião Salgado (February 8, 1944 – May 23, 2025) has died at the age of 81. Widely regarded as one of the greatest photographers in the history of world photography, he leaves behind a legacy of over 500,000 images or more — many of them grainy black-and-white photographs, captured in some of the most remote and inaccessible corners of the globe. His work has stunned, shocked, stupefied, and, inevitably, inspired.
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1 month ago | 
thefederal.com | Amit Sengupta
Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest), the restored black-and-white classic by Satyajit Ray (May 2, 1921-April 23, 1992) is being showcased at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival, hailed as the ‘Mecca of the finest cinema’ in the world.
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1 month ago | 
lokmarg.com | Amit Sengupta
Around 4 am, May 7, 2025, when the first, fated crow was about to sing its sweetest early morning song, a writer-friend called from Srinagar. Her voice sounded urgent, but not scared or desperate. She said what seems like Chinook war helicopters seem to be hovering over her hotel, there is intense shelling at the border near Poonch, one Indian woman has been reportedly killed, the locals there have switched off their lights and have come out of their homes, and they are all crying.
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1 month ago | 
thefederal.com | Amit Sengupta
While topping the TRP ratings, the Netflix series Adolescence, set in the UK, has struck a chord in India as well, especially in urban spaces, and among adolescents, young adults, parents and teachers. Although the psychological impact of social media is different in India, due to deeply rooted family and kinship ties, there are stark similarities in its positive and negative effects.
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2 months ago | 
shorturl.at | Amit Sengupta
Listen! Faiz,Do you know? The differencebetween your and my waitIs onlyA fixed timeJust a few more daysYou knew thatLike the gust of breezeSpeechless cloud does not tellWhen I ask—“How many more seasons like this?”Who knows how many more seasons? — Gulfisha Fatima, prison poems. So, how many more seasons, condemned, exiled, trapped, a young girl, a brilliant scholar, a compassionate heart which beats for justice?
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2 months ago | 
lokmarg.com | Amit Sengupta
Listen! Faiz,Do you know? The differencebetween your and my waitIs onlyA fixed timeJust a few more daysYou knew thatLike the gust of breezeSpeechless cloud does not tellWhen I ask—“How many more seasons like this?”Who knows how many more seasons? — Gulfisha Fatima, prison poems. So, how many more seasons, condemned, exiled, trapped, a young girl, a brilliant scholar, a compassionate heart which beats for justice?
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2 months ago | 
kashmirtimes.com | Amit Sengupta
Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, a talented Tufts University student, wrote an opinion piece for the students’ magazine, co-authored with three other students, arguing that that the university should “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide” and “divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel”. This has been the demand of thousands of students, peacefully protesting in America and Europe, since the beginning of the Genocide in Gaza. So, what was her crime?
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2 months ago | 
timesheadline.in | Amit Sengupta
Reading time : 4 minutesRumeysa Ozturk, 30, a talented Tufts University student, wrote an opinion piece for the students' magazine, co-authored with three other students, arguing that that the university should "acknowledge the Palestinian genocide" and "divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel". This has been the demand of thousands of students, peacefully protesting in America and Europe, since the beginning of the Genocide in Gaza. So, what was her crime?
