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Amit Tyagi

@amithemescape

Filmmaker, both fiction and documentary, now a part time teacher in filmmaking too. Done a lot of work on Indians in East Africa.

 Pune, India
Joined January 2012
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Sold by @Sothebys for £112,500. Illustrated page from 1st (@V_and_A) #Akbarnama, 1590-95, #Akbar & his Entourage Journey by Boat. Text describes in details the preparations & departure of #Mughal ruler for #Patna on 15th June 1574, arriving there on 3rd August. #DayoftheSeafarer
Image from Sharad Mohan شرد ਸ਼ਰਦ शरद শরদ (@ssharadmohhan)
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Greed versus balance: Where Amitav Ghosh’s re-creation of Sundarban legends in verse takes us scroll.in/article/990689/gre… via @scroll_in

Greed versus balance: Where Amitav Ghosh’s re-creation of Sundarban legends in verse takes us

In ‘Jungle nama’, Ghosh locates an old cautionary tale in a modern context of humans taking more than they need to from nature.

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To pierce a mustard seed and let in seven oceans: Ambai on the art of translation scroll.in/article/990624/to-… via @scroll_in
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Actress Devika Rani ‘kept her dignity despite all the things done to her’: biographer Kishwar Desai scroll.in/reel/988804/actres… via @TheReel_in

Actress Devika Rani ‘kept her dignity despite all the things done to her’: biographer Kishwar Desai

Desai’s ‘The Longest Kiss’ is the chronicle of a woman who was ‘a pioneer then, and now’.

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How 22-year-old Vijay Anand dug in his heels to make his first film ‘Nau Do Gyarah’ scroll.in/reel/986989/how-22… via @TheReel_in

How 22-year-old Vijay Anand dug in his heels to make his first film ‘Nau Do Gyarah’

Edited excerpts from the biography ‘Goldie’, translated from the Marathi.

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‘The White Tiger’: It Took 30 Years of Obsession to Prepare Ramin Bahrani for His Biggest Movie indiewire.com/2021/02/ramin-… via @indiewire

‘The White Tiger’: It Took 30 Years of Obsession to Prepare Ramin Bahrani for His Biggest Movie

Bahrani's Netflix hit took root in college dorm room discussions and deep questions about his priorities as a director.

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From ‘Mile Sur’ to ‘Freedom Run’ and ‘Desh Raga’: How Louiz Banks knitted the music together scroll.in/article/986878/fro… via @scroll_in

From ‘Mile Sur’ to ‘Freedom Run’ and ‘Desh Raga’: How Louiz Banks knitted the music together

An excerpt from ‘Louiz Banks: A Symphony of Love’, by Ashis Ghatak.

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What the stories of the people who live at India’s borders tell us about the country’s history scroll.in/article/986366/wha… via @scroll_in

What the stories of the people who live at India’s borders tell us about the country’s history

An excerpt from ‘Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India’, by Suchitra Vijayan.

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‘Krishnayan’: The women in Krishna’s life talk about him in this bestselling Gujarati novel scroll.in/article/985751/kri… via @scroll_in

‘Krishnayan’: The women in Krishna’s life talk about him in this bestselling Gujarati novel

Kaajal Oza Vaidya’s novel has been translated into English by Subha Pande.

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In her new book, Audrey Truschke examines Sanskrit works on India’s Muslim history scroll.in/article/985867/in-… via @scroll_in
In her new book, Audrey Truschke examines Sanskrit works on India’s Muslim history

In her new book, Audrey Truschke examines Sanskrit works on India’s Muslim history

How ‘Sanskrit writers produced histories of political power wielded over parts of the Indian subcontinent by people who happened to be Muslim.’

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Photo essay: The bridges of Pune and the people who stop and stare scroll.in/article/985735/pho… via @scroll_in

Photo essay: The bridges of Pune and the people who stop and stare

It is special that in the midst of constant traffic, loud honking and hurrying pedestrians, people find a moment to themselves with the river.

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What the ruins of the original Nalanda university tell us about an old civilisation of India scroll.in/article/985565/wha… via @scroll_in
What the ruins of the original Nalanda university tell us about an old civilisation of India

What the ruins of the original Nalanda university tell us about an old civilisation of India

An excerpt from ‘Indians: A Brief History of a Civilisation’, by Namit Arora.

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Satyajit Ray at 100: Why Sharmila Tagore considers ‘Devi’ her best collaboration with the master scroll.in/reel/983869/satyaj… via @TheReel_in
Why Sharmila Tagore considers ‘Devi’ her best collaboration with Satyajit Ray

Why Sharmila Tagore considers ‘Devi’ her best collaboration with Satyajit Ray

The 1960 classic, an examination of the tussle between blind faith and rationality, was one of five Ray productions to feature Tagore.

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Hindustan Times: 'Vijay Anand kept saying censorship should be free, had to retire out of frustration', says son. hindustantimes.com/entertain… via @GoogleNews

'Vijay Anand kept saying censorship should be free, had to retire out of frustration', says son

Vijay Anand, who would have turned 87 on Friday, was the CBFC chief for sometime, but his son now says he was unhappy with censorship and quit filmmaking due to the frustration. | Bollywood

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To Cast Balram in <i>The White Tiger</i>, Ramin Bahrani Made the Most of an Exploratory Trip to India and Went Off-Script During Casting - moviemaker.com/the-white-tig…

The White Tiger Director Ramin Bahrani Went Off-Script During Casting

The White Tiger director Ramin Bahrani in conversation with moviemaker Zal Batmanglij on how he cast unknown Adarsh Gourav as Balram.

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‘Murder at the Mushaira’: A poet is murdered, and the detective chasing the killer is Mirza Ghalib scroll.in/article/984394/mur… via @scroll_in

‘Murder at the Mushaira’: A poet is murdered, and the detective chasing the killer is Mirza Ghalib

An excerpt from Raza Mir’s historical novel set in the Delhi of 1857 and after, with a crime driving the narrative.

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Ghalib in Banaras, Banaras in Ghalib: A new critical biography rereads the legendary poet’s life scroll.in/article/984220/gha… via @scroll_in

Ghalib in Banaras, Banaras in Ghalib: A new critical biography rereads the legendary poet’s life

An excerpt from ‘Ghalib: A Wilderness at My Doorstep’, by Mehr Afshan Farooqi.

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‘The Hidden Garden’: This book examines Mir Taqi Mir’s life through his incomparable poetry scroll.in/article/983858/the… via @scroll_in

‘The Hidden Garden’: This book examines Mir Taqi Mir’s life through his incomparable poetry

A love story from the ghazal-writer’s life, and four ghazals.

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This novel from Nagaland uses fiction as a vehicle for stories of injustice in the real world scroll.in/article/983482/thi… via @scroll_in

This novel from Manipur uses fiction as a vehicle for stories of injustice in the real world

The highlight of Veio Pou’s ‘Waiting for the Dust to Settle’ is Operation Bluebird, the armed mission of 1987 against thirty Naga villages.

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10 Indian Films We Hope Bollywood Does Not Remake filmcompanion.in/features/bo… via @FilmCompanion
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