Ashish Rajadhyaksha

Feb 26, 2024 | thewire.in | Ashish Rajadhyaksha

It wasn’t a radical film by any definition of radical that existed at the time. The maker himself was clearly a radical figure. The first impression was always that of frailty: a pronounced limp, sharp eyes and a shock of hair. A Marxist, it would be said in whispers in the form of the time, with an intellectual genealogy that had European roots that also spoke to histories of Indian materialism. He had returned from Paris, and had all the hallmarks of an active participant in the events of May ’68.

Jan 26, 2024 | thehindu.com | Soma Basu |Charumathi Supraja |Sudhanva Deshpande |Ashish Rajadhyaksha

In brutalising times, literature keeps us sane, said German author, poet and journalist Ronya Othmann, whose acclaimed book The Summers (translated from German Die Summers), published in 2020, is all about the entanglement of migration and how families are torn apart when faced with war and loss. To document the years spent in conflict and exile is important, she said, because when everything is lost, it is important to preserve memories associated with home.

Jan 16, 2024 | thehindu.com | Ashish Rajadhyaksha

Ashish RajadhyakshaLast September, five months after Vivan Sundaram passed away, a book with the simple name Kasauli Art Centre, 1976-1991 was published. It included precious archives of 15 years. Sundaram used to organise art camps, talks, workshops, conferences, theatre performances and film events at a large villa in Kasauli named Ivy Lodge, which he inherited from his mother.

Sep 19, 2023 | mayday.leftword.com | Nishant Shah |Ashish Rajadhyaksha |Nafis Hasan

Paperback 978-93-92018-52-7 LeftWord Books, New Delhi, 2023 Language: English 310 pages 5.5 x 8.5 inches Price INR 595.00 Book Club Price INR 417.00 INR 595.00 In stock This book locates India’s flourishing internet within a complex 24-year history that has seen an unprecedented re-organization of social and political life.

Mar 29, 2023 | thewire.in | Ashish Rajadhyaksha

The life and career of Vivan Sundaram – who died in Delhi today – is especially hard to pin down, and that is how he wanted it. Both his life and work, inevitably, are deeply intertwined with all of 20th century India as he moved from colonial histories to those of contemporary radical activism, from Nehruvian nationalism to hallucinating images of dystopian globalisation.