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A Sonic Life in the Himalaya: ‘Sketches from the Top of the Hills’
7 August 2026
A Sonic Life in the Himalaya: ‘Sketches from the Top of the Hills’
7 August 2026

Singer-songwriter Ady Manral introduces his music documentary from Landour, a visual EP rinsed with the lush sights and sounds of monsoon in the Himalayan foothills.

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7 August 2026
The Unsettling Politics of Violence and Music in ‘Dhurandhar’
4 August 2026
The Unsettling Politics of Violence and Music in ‘Dhurandhar’
4 August 2026

With brutal carnage presented with celebratory beats, Dhurandhar: The Revenge pushes viewers towards a stony insensitivity, creating a sense of heightened tempo and exhilaration without moral recoil. By Abin Chakraborty

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4 August 2026
“Until the Last Light” – Three Poems by Sindhuri Rao
30 July 2026
“Until the Last Light” – Three Poems by Sindhuri Rao
30 July 2026

Poetry by Sindhuri Rao: ‘Keep everything you bought here— / your eager dreams, / hanging garments, / obedient smiles, / unpressed rages, too. / “Be our guest.”’

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30 July 2026
Surrealistic Icarus: Gopal Lahiri’s SELECTED POEMS
Literature The Chakkar 25/04/26 Literature The Chakkar 25/04/26

Surrealistic Icarus: Gopal Lahiri’s SELECTED POEMS

“Poetry is the diary I always carry with me.” Gopal Lahiri’s collection Selected Poems (2025) cultivates a privacy that invites readers to the poet’s second self in consciousness. By Dustin Pickering

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Winter Solstice 2022: An anthology of Indian poetry on The Chakkar
Creativity The Chakkar 30/11/22 Creativity The Chakkar 30/11/22

Winter Solstice 2022: An anthology of Indian poetry on The Chakkar

In a special anthology curated by Ronald Tuhin D’Rozario, nineteen luminary Indian poets respond to the winter through verse. ‘In this odour of detachment, December somehow develops a quiet stir of emptiness inside. It gently teaches the importance of slowness, just like dropping a semicolon between sentences.’

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