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Shiladitya Sarkar

Shiladitya Sarkar is a painter and writer based in Mumbai. He has exhibited in UK, USA, Hongkong, West Indies, Singapore and in various parts of India. He has written two books: Thirst of a minstrel and Abstract Reality, the novel Clayfaces and the poem collection For You the Call of Thousand Birds. He writes on Art and Culture in various magazines including Art India.

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A Shout Out for an Unclaimed Beloved

Shiladitya Sarkar analyses Tapan Sinha’s journey as a chronicler of his times through the lens of two of his best-loved films Galpo Holeo Satti and Ek Doctor ki Maut
oka oorie katha

The Politics of Choice, the Politics of Representation: Mrinal Sen’s ‘Oka Oorie Katha’

Mrinal Sen’s powerful Telugu film Oka Oorie Katha challenges conventions, explores poverty’s pervasiveness, and questions the value of work.

Knifing the Body – Depiction of Maiming in Cinema

Filmmakers have often relied on gore as a mode to make the audience uncomfortable with our very own physiology. Amitava and Shiladitya explore.
use of eyes in cinema

In the Wink of an Eye

Amitava Nag and Shiladitya Sarkar explore the different ways in which films have used an actor’s eyes, many a time to convey the unspoken.
Raise the Red lantern

Matrix of Claustrophobia: Raise the Red Lantern

Raise the Red lantern remains rooted in the everyday of a traditional family, and yet hints at state atrocities committed at Tiananmen Square.

Book(s) by Shiladitya Sarkar

For You The Call of Thousand Birds

For You The Call of Thousand Birds

Shiladitya Sarkar
₹330 ₹350
Clayfaces

Clayfaces

Shiladitya Sarkar
₹300 ₹375
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