Feature Articles | SREEDEEP

A Proclamation of Polyamory and Promiscuity

Outlook, August 3, 2023

Consciously non-committal, purposefully non-possessive, and a decisively un-domesticated version of romance

Grand Kanwar Yatra Scheme of Majoritarian India

Newsclick, July 27, 2023

Tolerance runs scarce except when citizens are expected to tolerate adversities—demonetisation, lockdowns, surveillance, raids, and religious processions.

New, Instant and Multiple as New Social Principles

Newsclick, July 11, 2023

Tracking the immediate consequences of liberalisation and globalisation.

Traditional in the Modern

Outlook, May 31, 2023

The coexistence of the old and the new is an inevitable part of our everyday life

Satyajit Ray’s Devi: Modern Matters and Patriarchal Pacts

Outlook, Apr 23, 2023

Satyajit Ray’s Devi (1960) is much more than a head-on collision between tradition and modernity. Even though there is a constant confrontation of these two opposing forces, our modern man eventually fails to rescue his wife from the clutches of blind faith

What is Wrong with our Universities

Outlook, Apr 2, 2023

Universities are in a fix because of the gap between high aspirations and low quality arising out of poor schooling. Moreover, lack of research converts universities into centres for transmitting existing knowledge without creating new knowledge

Two Films that Explored Effects of Patriarchy on Men

Newsclick, March 9, 2023

Sara Akash and 27 Down examine lack of agency through their male protagonists.

TheViolence of Parents and Family

Outlook, Jan 14, 2023

How not to parent - some lessons from childhood

In the Postmodern World, Intimacy has become a Strange Thing,

Outlook, Jan 13, 2023

In today's world, emotional bonds are rare as we chase for newness relentlessly

Learning to Forget

The Telegraph, July 14, 2022

Dipankar Gupta's book leads us to differentiate between ‘learnings from history’ and ‘remembering the past’

Social Science Operates with Multiple Truths

The Hindu, May 17, 2022

Choosing a ‘right’ answer from a set of multiple choices does not do justice to the subject and nuances of social issues

Cityscapes and identities: What advertisements, images tell us about commodities and consumers

The Scroll, May 13, 2022

It is through an imagery that any commodity becomes more than what it is, and gets transformed into something more intimate, and identifiable..

Teaching in/of Covid Times

The Mainstream, May 6, 2022

Story in Pictures

The Telegraph, April 25, 2022

Commodities are increasingly being premised on semiotics that are visually curated to trigger the aspirational-impulse

Hijab Ban

The Scroll, March 15, 2022

To compel anyone to wear a garment or not to wear it is to interfere with their personal freedom, faith, choice and taste.

Beauty and the Beast

The Telegraph, February 17, 2022

The beauty industry makes us forget a basic physiological fact: that bodies come in all shapes and sizes

How Real is the Image? How Futile is that Question?

OPEN, February 12, 2022

Mediation is the life-force behind all images

Tagore's Version of Atmanirvar and Akmashakti

Mainstream, Januuary 22, 2022

“Nationalism is a great menace...It is my conviction that my countrymen will truly gain their India by fighting against the education which teaches them that a country is greater than the ideals of humanity.”

India: A Million Lockdowns, Rock Buttom Healthcare

Newsclick, June 24, 2020

Is the world’s biggest lockdown a fake reassurance? It mindlessly creates boundaries that will not delay the inevitable.

Wear Che Guevara, Johnny Walker and Gandhi on your T-shirts, but it says nothing about you

The Print, October 31, 2020

In ‘Consumerist Encounters’, Sreedeep Bhattacharya explores how our relationships and representations of commodities like T-shirts have evolved in urban India.

Commodities as Trophies: How Advertisements Valorise the Elite

The Wire, November 18, 2021

An excerpt from Sreedeep Bhattacharya's book 'Consumerist Encounters: Flirting with Things and Images'.

Gender Dimensions of Living Alone and Covid-19

Newsclick , June 1, 2020

Let us hope against hope that this pandemic turns out to be an equaliser in matters of domestic work.

Locking Down in Privilege

Asiavillenews, May 26, 2020

Should I feel guilty and stop being a consumer? What can I possibly sacrifice? Can I stop living my life because of a virus and its social impact on the poor? Our lives were vastly different anyway.

Working from Home while being Watched from Home

Newsclick, June 1, 2020

As if the existing power equations were not unequal enough, now the home has become a mere enclosure for the body, a place where time and time-tables are being reworked to ensure non-idleness.

Unmasking an Array of Brands

OPEN, May 17, 2020

Consumerist footprint on a preventive shield

Mass movement versus vast stagnancy

Asiavillenews, May 6, 2020

The guilt of the middle class as we witness the mass movement of the migrants across India.

Return of the High-Times

OPEN, May 6, 2020

The long lines of lack of control

Can Covid Change the Way We Date and Mate?

OPEN, April 24, 2020

Cohabitation and carnal status-updates in a pandemic.

Adapting, Adjusting and Evolving with a Virus

NewsClick, April 22, 2020

Reflections on getting back to normal after Covid-19 has changed how we live, work and consume.

Balcony of Big Things

NewsClick, April 15, 2020

The Theatrics of the Light and Sound-Show.

Parasite VS Parasite OR Parasite VS Host?

Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia, April 13, 2020

Latest article at FORSEA on the critique of the film Parasite in the context of the current pandemic virus.

Why Social Distancing is a Distant

DreamNewsClick, March 29, 2020

Neither ‘janata curfew’ nor absolute lockdowns will work. We have to detect and drown the virus with medically-sound measures.

Why JNU is being Disciplined and Punished

NewsClick, Jan 19, 2020

The state is normalising everyday violence through internal surgical strikes on the ideological ‘Other’.

Why Kabir isn’t Cool

NewsClick, July 26, 2019

He is not the Angry Young Man of ‘70s celluloid, who framed his rage against a harsh and ineffective state. Kabir’s superficial rage has no wider meaning except blatant sexism and harsh impositions

Mistaking Media(ted) Democracy for the Real Thing

The Wire, Apr 07, 2019

Other than offering her or him the right to choose an electoral candidate, which other rights are ordinary citizens entitled to? What does this system give them, and what does it extract in return?