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anandi m

5 months

My latest for @psyche_the_mag exploring the topics of home, where we live and how it makes us who we are. Give it a read? The divided self: does where I live make me who I am? – #Longread #Weekendreading #Reading

The divided self: does where I live make me who I am? | Psyche Ideas

At home in Delhi, I am a more social, interactive person. A quiet balcony in Frankfurt gave me space to be by myself

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2 years

Imagining them together in a love story set in a hilly town..Nainital. Talking in Indian-American English. Sitting on one of those green benches, fingers interlaced. Looking at the jheel. Discussing groceries, calling the plumber, picking up their daughter after school…

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1 year

Everyone’s allowed one spring in a year.

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3 months

The meaning of life hides in this tree in my neighbourhood DDA park

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4 years

sharing here the preposterous behaviour meted out to me by @palashmehrotra of @thepunchmag he reached out to me to publish one of my blog entries and then went on to publish it without informing me. see screenshots of his replies when i asked the reason for not informing me.

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2 years

Late evening autorickshaw rides from one part of south Delhi to another are a mood, a zone, a tonic of their own. It’s literally hard not to fall for the deep beauty of the city, just as the smog lifts and winter begins to set in.

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6 months

@markarby Dear Mark! Hope you're OK. Also hope that you know that you and your yellow bus photos are a rage in far away land New Delhi. I'm down with a cold but have been cackling at your replies. Thanks, with due credit, of course.

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4 months

I love how Laapata Ladies continues to cause some of us to think that we know the “story of the Indian village” better than @raodyness when she hasn’t even attempted to make that claim through the movie. Here’s @SumanaSiliguri in today’s Express:

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1 year

@Salandthebadpun can't act at all, imo. very stagnant, straitjacketed choices. not willing to come undone in her filmic choices. not much difference between personal and professional.

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3 years

me and the best friend chilling at his place after getting vaccinated (a v distant dream rn).

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4 months

Gulmohar trees from my neighbourhood bring me so much joy each time I see them. Sometimes even when am tired after work, I step out just to be able to walk around and see these beauties

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@anandi010

4 years

i demand a public apology from him and @ShireenQuadri for such downright disturbing behaviour. all this while silence from @ShireenQuadri who is the editor of @thepunchmag . i should not be, but am appalled at the privilege and gall of this man. trembling as i type this.

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2 years

“It was impossible to rush plants, to tell a tree to ‘hurry up’. In envy, in admiration and with ambition, I began to call that pace ‘Tree time’.” @SumanaSiliguri , How I Became a Tree

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4 months

“A pen is a much more primitive instrument.” Paul Auster on how he writes

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1 year

Holi by Jamini Roy

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2 years

Sid Sriram wins this round

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1 year

They don’t make Kapoors, scratch that, they don’t make men like him anymore. The ever so vivacious #ShashiKapoor lives on.

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1 year

@hkatewilliams The death of the auteur 😓😓

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@anandi010

2 years

Jerry Pinto now has a fortnightly column in HT Mumbai where he takes walks in different areas of the city and meditates about them on the page. This is his most recent piece

Dharavi Koliwada: Where people are pushed to the edge

An architect by trade, Patil has a deep understanding of the way the Dharavi Koliwada functions and will take me on a guided tour of the place. This, she says, is where she feels at home although her...

www.hindustantimes.com

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4 months

Auster on becoming a writer from reading voraciously

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2 years

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."

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@anandi010

9 months

Need this poster on my bedroom wall like asapppp

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9 months

KATRINA KAIF - VIJAY SETHUPATHI: ‘MERRY CHRISTMAS’ TO NOW ARRIVE ON 12 JAN 2024... 12 Jan 2024 is the new release date of #MerryChristmas , which teams #KatrinaKaif and #VijaySethupathi for the first time… #NewPosters … “We have made this film with a lot of love and passion,

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@anandi010

1 year

Sally Rooney’s Normal People completes five years next month and this is a good reckoning about its rather simplistic and culturally tone deaf reading by people outside of Ireland.

The cult of Normal People

Five years since it was first published, Sally Rooney’s hugely popular novel has sparked countless imitations—and an inevitable backlash

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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@anandi010

3 years

as usual @blgtylr saying it as it should be. rediscovering some old newsletters are damn are they good

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@anandi010

1 year

Randomly reached that age where I carry paracetamol, meftal, ibuprofen, saridon, pudin hara and electral in my handbag. Especially when going to a party, because very often we don’t know which aunt, friend or stranger will need what and how terrific it’ll be to have it handy!

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3 years

. @sardesairajdeep in maacher bazar in garia hat, commenting on the fishes and chingri, wearing a pink shirt, casually debating if MH cooks better fish curries than WB, chatting up with fish sellers and dadus. all this with splendid camera work. good old TV reporting.

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@anandi010

2 years

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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@anandi010

2 years

Need good wishes, luck for something important in the next 24 hours. Please send good vibes ✨✨ it’s important and I hope it works 🙏🏽

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@anandi010

8 years

Nike Da Da Ding : The Other Women

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9 years

"Off to watch Benedict Cumberbae at Barbican Or more like Barbican't handle these feels"

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@anandi010

3 years

this is terrific, and so beautiful

Cycling Professor 🚲 

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3 years

To create more human-friendly public space we do not lack street space. We lack imagination! The #FlyingCarMovement reached Skalitzer Strasse, Berlin. Support @jan_kamensky :

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@anandi010

1 year

Which famous painting best reflects your soul?

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Which famous painting reflects best your soul?

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1 year

It’s their era again 🧡🪔

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4 months

A viral tweet last week went on about how Laapata Ladies’ feminism is city-washed and uninteresting when irl it’s the academics who are quick to judge anything that’s “niche” and also palatable to a large audience. They feel their territory is being impinged.

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4 months

Friends who gift you books are perhaps the best kind of friends. But the friends who gift you books that you’ve been dreaming to read for years, the books you wanted to hold in your hands, read with a pencil are the best possible human beings #nowreading (with two other titles)

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@anandi010

7 years

this year am gonna read and buy books and chapbooks by all my favourite @buttonpoetry poets. resolve early

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@anandi010

2 years

beautifully said, deeply felt about the emotion of being a writer, and what writing can mean to a writer

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@anandi010

7 years

Here @KavehAkbar grasps the tiny moment of God's attention in the midst of a prayer in a language unbeknownst to him

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@anandi010

4 months

Never seen a nation state so bent on k*lling its own people one way or the other

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I’m sure @fssaiindia can increase the permissible limits of wood dust in masalas and all will be well.

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2 years

@asimburney Not related, but I for my latest substack I wrote about her dance numbers being my personal space of solace

#Scurf138: On Filmy Hindi songs aka Kat's dancing chops

Before everything else, there was Just Chill

scurfofyesterday.substack.com

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1 year

Delhi’s magic today. Dispatch from a rather rushed run

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@anandi010

4 years

a splendid, splendid essay this one by @TriciaLockwood for @LRB full of sparkling, near perfect paragraphs like this one

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@anandi010

2 months

Interviewed the intrepid, endlessly interesting and diversely itinerant chronicler of our Indian megapolis @SloganMurugan 🐾📸

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@anandi010

4 months

Part of my mother’s side of the family is from a village in UP (my mum was born and brought up there) and watching Laapata Ladies gave her, my aunt and us cousins a (kinda much needed) reprieve, supplying us with joy and even hope. Just like the movie intends to ☘️

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@anandi010

7 years

@WhoresofYore

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7 years

Great photo from Delhi via @FeminismInIndia

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@anandi010

3 months

Closing in the birthday of this literary mensch! @malyabanghosh

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3 years

A truly unforgettable, dazzling story by @SejalSukhadwala : In Search of Memsahib @The_Fence_Mag

In Search of Memsahib

The magic of Putney.

www.the-fence.com

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9 months

Historical hottie

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10 months

The sofa as a liminal space 🍁

The Sofa - The Paris Review

“Each week, I drove in the spiral, north and east and south and west, and returned to sit on the small sofa.”

www.theparisreview.org

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10 months

mirror photos always felt more self-revealing, talkative

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2 years

Delhi winter is giving 🌿✨

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4 months

A journal is an effigy of the self, or else is the self, the self that exists because we create it. I am no longer sure, for the record, what people mean when they say that the self is illusory. Isn’t it here? @egabbert in top form on memory and the self

Second Selves - The Paris Review

“It seems we can’t help but imagine an audience when we write. Because a journal makes the self external, the self counts as an audience.”

www.theparisreview.org

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@anandi010

3 years

Today's must rewatch: Sai Paranjpe's #Saaz (1997). Supposedly based on the life of sisters #LataMangeshkar & #AshaBhosle , it fictionalises how the older interfered with Asha's career (+ life). Aruna Irani plays Lata, Shabana Azmi Asha & Zakir Hussain RD Burman.

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3 years

saw @alexanderchee in my dream, telling my mom that I’m on my way to become a fine writer. only (????) weird part about the dream was that we were in the otherwise ignored lawn of my school of 14 years!

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2 months

It's been 45° everyday for days now and I'm tired, fuming. I'm smoking hot. I'm burnt from these desert winds that leave us aloof. I'm charred from living like a sardine inside a tin can. I'm endlessly supine in the memory of the winter that was. I'm cooped up, resigned, ebonied

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6 years

Mint, Delhi is looking for copy editors for the newspaper and web. Experience, anywhere between 1-5/6 years. Please drop a line at pranav.s @htlive .com #jobs please Retweet

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9 months

“Closure is fallacy,” Paul Auster

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@anandi010

3 months

Literally me

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I am so easily impressed by trees

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1 month

🍾🍿 Sat down virtually with THE Sal aka @Salandthebadpun and got bare bones about movies, earlier inspirations in Rekha, Mads, Bebo & finding a filmic community online 📣I truly loved this conversation and really wish this wouldn't have had to end 🔗 where they go

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@anandi010

1 month

New newsletter conversation dropping today has me had excited like a teenager for weekssss 💦💦

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2 years

Spotted #TombOfSand ’s both avatars at the Kolkata airport @shreedaisy @kan_writersside #GeetanjaliShree

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4 months

There was also ambiya-pudina ki chatni with this 🧘🏻‍♀️🌻

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4 months

“If there’s a pencil in your pocket, there’s a good chance that one day you’ll feel tempted to start using it.” — Paul Auster, 1995

“Why Write?,” by Paul Auster

From 1995, the author answers the age-old question in a series of five subjects: a film, a fall, a storm, a note, and a game.

www.newyorker.com

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1 year

Insert Piku’s Sarod theme

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7 years

@yogi_adityanath Case crime number 0189 filed under Thana Ghatampur on January 29, 2017 under section 396 of the IPC

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9 months

Sontag on when she started reading. Electric stuff!

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3 years

a beauty in mail this week @stingingfly

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4 years

cc @anniezaidi @somakghoshal @avantikabhuyan @sayantansunnyg @grrrvita @maaynaque @sukhadatatke @BhavyaDore @h_tejas @divya_krthk @rumlolarum @priyankasacheti @SumanaSiliguri @imrozed @natashabadhwar @dhamini @Poojaspillai

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2 years

“The current political dispensation is perhaps aware of the influence and reach of the literature written in Indian languages, because cultural and political phrases and imagery are best reflected in Indian languages.“

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@anandi010

6 years

Mum’s collection of #paperbags from bygone era will always stun me out of boredom. These #Globus bags resurrect (then) best friend’s & my fixation with a #Bebo of #Chaliya times. Am I a #KareenaKapoorKhan fan forevz!? :/

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4 months

About to pass out in the heat? Why yes please

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4 months

I guess I'll try put together a 🧵 of books I'm reading. Just wrapped up Camus' The Fall. Utterly bedazzled and dazed through this monologuish piece... I've to admit, I might've to read it again in a couple of months.

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@anandi010

1 year

Shops selling colours and flowers for festivals, Sadar Bazar, Pune. C. 1850

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@anandi010

1 year

Malcolm X (1992) Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar (2000) The Young Karl Marx (2018)

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@DearthOfSid

1 year

Goosebumps assured 🔥

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@anandi010

3 years

for @popula i write about living through Delhi's lockdowns, reading Jane Jacobs in the pandemic and the renewed relevance of her theory of 'eyes on streets'

Jane Jacobs and Delhi’s lockdowns

the renewed relevance of 'eyes on the street' as the pandemic ebbs

popula.com

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@anandi010

3 years

in my essay for @ElectricLit i write about learning, reading, writing in English as the language that would help me break out, only to forget Hindi far behind in the process. read on

Electric Literature

@ElectricLit

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Anandi Mishra was raised to see English as more ambitious and educated than Hindi, but now struggles with what has been lost in the bargain.

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9 months

On being a thinking leftist Jew in the present moment. A soulful, searching essay by @SamAdlerBell

Jews in the diaspora must resist the inhumanity being done by Israel in our name

Jewish history in the 20th century testifies that suffering is a meagre moral teacher – but we learn its lessons anyway.

www.newstatesman.com

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6 years

I want my Amol Palekar on a just-rained melodramatic-bye-wave this morning

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4 months

Me trying to pursue my hobbies (marinating, lazying, being)

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3 years

In the November 2021 issue of @TheBrooklynRail I have an essay about Emma Seligman's Shiva Baby and how it's awkwardness, anxieties and horrors are essentially about a woman trying to come to terms with her body as a sexual being. Read here:

The Endless Hunger of Shiva Baby

Food serves as the nourishing spirit of Shiva Baby, a wild, unpredictable, and unnerving ride whose witty dialogue and darkly humorous setting are sorely reminiscent of TV series like Fleabag and...

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@anandi010

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@TheLuisPanini I so identify with this sentiment, Luis. In fact wrote about this at length a couple of years ago. Hope you enjoy the movies and also reading my essay ✨🥳 🔗

Angela Schanelec’s Films and Me

Angela Schanelec’s Films and Me | Vague Visages

vaguevisages.com

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@anandi010

2 years

Delhi winter mornings in and around the park ☘️🍃🫧🕊️

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2 years

I wrote about 1/10th of the thoughts I had about a recent international literary thing: "When a Language Comes Calling"

#Scurf112: When a Language Comes Calling

the alchemy of a language left behind and how some of us come to be writers

scurfofyesterday.substack.com

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@anandi010

4 years

@Vaibhav_Rptr @palashmehrotra @thepunchmag Entitled. Privileged. And blindsided by it all.

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8 months

DP is able to emote, express and play around more openly than Aish because obviously of their personal circumstances... Hence making hrithik-deepika>>>hrithik-aish. Goated #ishjaisakuch

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8 years

If there's any God, it's in these sublime, eternally transcendent words. @ijeomaumebinyuo your words are manifestations of myriad minds...

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3 months

Cycle photo dump, Amsterdam edition

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2 years

Love this prismatic look at the casual tyranny of Indian uncles by @BShrayana

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4 months

@lonazeppelin but you know notallwen *eyes rolled so hard*

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4 months

Four years ago when it all seemed so otherworldly at the beginning of Covid lockdowns in Delhi

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4 months

After watching every new Hindi movie in the last few months I’ve gone online looking for that good, comprehensive review only to realise that people made entire careers writing mocking, hilarious ones, killing the genuinely inquisitive, searching nuanced kind of film criticism.

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1 year

Past Lives will stay with me for a long time. But more importantly, how are almost all A24 movies so gorgeously framed? What is with that kind of attention to detail? I kept taking mental screenshots through the hours at PVR today.

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1 year

Jehangir celebrating Holi, unknown artist, c 1635

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1 year

“In the Mood for Love” ’s Era-Defining Aesthetic Everything about this Encounters piece by ⁦ @chaykak ⁩ is gorgeous. Like a novel on In The Mood For Love waiting to be written!

The Era-Defining Aesthetic of “In the Mood for Love”

Wong Kar Wai’s 2000 masterwork has influenced filmmakers ranging from Barry Jenkins to Sofia Coppola—and innumerable teens on TikTok.

www.newyorker.com

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@anandi010

4 years

the piece in question, which has now been deleted from their website now. @thepunchmag @ShireenQuadri @palashmehrotra

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3 years

can someone create a video of Ali Sethi’s dil ki khair with a montage of Salman Toor’s exhausted musical gathering paintings ✨all I need to get through all festive seasons

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5 months

Do you read on public transport?

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2 years

I had too much fun working on this review and was really glad when @soonamahal at @fullstopmag decided to give it a home. Read my Janet Malcolm-esque review of @OlgaRavn 's The Employees in ten different attempts here:

The Employees – Olga Ravn

"In Olga Ravn’s The Employees humans and humanoids show a way forward for a calamitous earth."

www.full-stop.net

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4 years

cc @tweets_prateekg @TheDilliMirror @waywardandwise @neeleshmisra @gradwolf @arunava @AruniKashyap @roughghosts

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