Next Friday, we celebrate, honour, investigate, and remember a life that stands in place as a symbol of the nation-state's resistance to citizen awareness and inquiry.
Join us with Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Banojyotsna Lahiri, and Anirban Bhattacharya as we come together and discuss Umar Khalid and His World, an anthology published by the fierce Three Essays Collective, bringing together letters, essays, reportage, poetry, and reflections engaging directly with the political conditions that shape dissent and incarceration in contemporary India.
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A security guard kept returning to the same artwork at the museum.
Over time, he began seeing animals in it.
“Good art,” Shuddhabrata Sengupta says on my podcast, “gives the wandering mind its freedom.”
Full video on YouTube. Link in bio
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In ‘An Occasional Untimeliness’, Raqs Media Collective sample some of the many ways in which they understand and practice temporality and the art of being ‘off-time’. ‘Occasional Untimeliness’ ties into Raqs’ sense of being sometimes at a tangent to the sequential exigencies and anxieties of modernity and of reading the image of time as an arrow.
في "عدم راهنية عارضة" تستكشف جماعة راكس ميديا كولكتيف بعض الطرق المتعددة التي تفهم بها الزمن وتمارسه، وفنّ الوجود "خارج الزمان"يرتبط هذا العمل بإحساس راكس بالوجود أحيانًا على هامش المتطلبات المتسلسلة وقلق الحداثة، وبمقاومة قراءة الزمن بوصفه سهمًا يتجه في مسار واحد.
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on Time examines how we perceive time. It challenged the notions of time as a linear path and understanding it as a cyclical rhythm.
on Time was moderated by Nour Ibrahim (@nour_ib_ ).
تقدم نقاشات عن الزمان ه فهم نقدي لكيفية إدراكنا للزمن، حيث تحدّت مفاهيم الزمن كمسار خطي وفهمه كإيقاع دوري. وسلّط المشاركون الضوء على قصور
أدارت نور إبراهيم حوارات عن الزمان
The opening session entitled "on Time" aimed to provide a critical understanding of how we perceive time. It challenged the notions of time as a linear path and understanding it as a cyclical rhythm. The contributors highlighted the limitations of standardised time and its relation to power structures. The session provided different ways to perceive time as a way to expand our imagination. Contributors to the session were Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta) and Léopold Lambert (the Funambulist). The session was moderated by Nour Ibrahim.
هدفت الجلسة الأولى والتي كانت بعنوان "عن الزمان" إلى تقديم فهم نقدي لكيفية إدراكنا للزمن، حيث تحدّت مفاهيم الزمن كمسار خطي وفهمه كإيقاع دوري. وسلّط المشاركون الضوء على قصور الزمن المعياري وعلاقته ببنى السلطة. وقدّمت الجلسة طرقًا مختلفة لإدراك الزمن كوسيلة لتوسيع آفاق الخيال. المشاركون في الجلسة هم مجموعة رقص ميديا (مونيكا نارولا وشودابارتا سينغبوتا) وليوبولد لامبرت (ذا فونامبوليست). أدارت الجلسة نور إبراهيم.
Image credits || حقوق الصورة: @thefunambulistmagazine
‘Umar Khalid and His World’ - released at the Press Club of India, New Delhi, on 17th February, 2026,4:00 pm. In this picture, from left to right, are - Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Neha Dixit, Saib Bilawal, Srinivasan Jain, Banojyotsna Lahiri, and Anirban Bhattacharya.
See you tomorrow (17th Feb) at 4pm, Press Club, New Delhi for the book release of UMAR KHALID AND HIS WORLD: AN ANTHOLOGY edited by Anirban Bhattacharya, Banojyotsna Lahiri & Shuddhabrata Sengupta!
