Supriya Nair

Jul 19, 2024 | digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Rhea Daniel |Srinivas Ramireddy |Supriya Nair |Mary Arbuthnot

The most common presenting symptoms of Rapunzel syndrome include abdominal pain (37%), nausea and vomiting (33.3%), obstruction (25.9%), and peritonitis (18.3%). Less commonly, patients may present with weight loss (7.4%) or intussusception (7.4%).

Jun 30, 2024 | supriyan.substack.com | Supriya Nair

This weekend, my friend Alok invited me to a discussion about the future of news at The Goa Project, run by Udhay Shankar, Peter Griffin and friends. This is a version of the speaking notes of my remarks. Thanks to the hosts and to my fellow discussant, the wonderful Prem Panicker. Hi, I’m Supriya. When we began Fifty Two we intended to publish deeply reported journalism from outside the news cycle and use our narrative format to reveal why these stories mattered to their readers.

May 3, 2023 | filmcompanion.in | Supriya Nair

The most prosaic of the great Hindi movie heroines of the twentieth century did not die of heart disease or of alcoholism. When the characters of her peers were being forged in the fires of Partition, she grew up on Bombay’s Marine Drive in a large and happily multi-religious family. When her male leads were paid Rs. 5000, she made ten times as much. When the starlets who are now legends of Hindi cinema were struggling for recognition, she became, at 28, the first actor to receive a Padma Shri.

Mar 1, 2023 | supriyan.substack.com | Supriya Nair

Dear friend,I went to see an exhibit of Atul Dodiya’s paintings, “Dr. Banerjee in Dr. Kulkarni’s Nursing Home,” on the day that it closed. I know very little about visual art and I have a strong, practically anti-intellectual suspicion of nostalgia, so I felt conflicted and hesitant to enjoy the paintings.

Feb 2, 2023 | caribbeanphilosophy.org | Bénédicte Boisseron |Supriya Nair |Lamonte Aidoo |LaRose Parris

The Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book AwardErgastulum: Vignettes of Lost TimeAzad Ashim Sharma, Ergastulum: Vignettes of Lost Time. Broken Sleep Books, 2022. Azad Ashim Sharma is a writer based in South London. He is the director of the87press. In addition to Ergastulum, his work includes Against the Frame (Barque Press, 2017; fifth anniversary issue with Broken Sleep Books, 2022) and the forthcoming  (Nightboat Books, 2024).