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Indrapramit Das
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aka Indra Das, author of THE DEVOURERS and THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, Lambda, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award winner, Crawford Award finalist. he/they/she

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Loved REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND (2025); unfolds like an adaptation of Alan Moore's version of James Bond from LXG, & like that comic practically (in the creative sense, too) vibrates with the multiple realities that art impregnates ours with, questioning who & what it mythifies & immortalizes.
Still from Reflection in a Dead Diamond, showing a slender white brunette woman lying on her stomach naked, showing her bare back covered in a glittering stream of diamonds. At the small of her back, a hand. The light is dreamy blue transitioning to green at the corner of the frame with the hand. Still from Reflection in a Dead Diamond; a black figure in an overcoat stands on the balcony of a sunlit villa, on a tiled chessboard patterned floor. Their face is a blazing white light. Still from Reflection in a Dead Diamond; two figures, one a nude woman, another a man in a suit, fight with blades in the dark, the only illumination the sparks of their weapons as they connect, casting their bodies in dim relief. Still from Reflection in a Dead Diamond; from behind, a man in a suit sits on a bed, over a limp woman. The stylised bedroom drifts in a black void, part of its circular wall cut away so we can peer in, to the man on the bed, surrounded by the corpses of women in white on a black carpet.
February 5, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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I like how FEMALE PRISONER 701: SCORPION begins with what looks like nationalist propaganda, a wide shot of uniformed prison guards being commended for preserving 'safety and harmony' under a Japanese flag, only to portray them as brutal, rapist pigs.
Still from Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion, showing lines of prison guards in a courtyard standing at attention under a Japanese flag. Still from the same film, showing a skewed close up of a leering, monstrous prison guard.
February 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Finally watched FEMALE PRISONER 701 (1972); too padded by the torture of its titular prisoner, but creatively ferocious when it needs to be, boiling with revulsion for the hateful carceral police state of patriarchy. Meiko Kaji (not pictured) is magnificent.
Still from the film Female Prisoner 701 showing a woman in a prison uniform with a spade in a pit filled with other women prisoners and prison guards. The prisoner has just finished swinging her spade, leaving a spurt of bright red blood emerging from the cloven head of the prison guard next to her.
February 5, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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Had a lovely time chatting on stage & off with panelists & readers at the Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters in Trivandrum. Many thanks to everyone who showed up, & to the workers & volunteers who put so much effort into the festival.
Photo of Murzban Shroff, me, Ponnu Matthew Elizabeth, and RJ Smriti on stage for a panel at the Mathrubhumi Int'l Festival of Letters in Trivandrum.
February 3, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Photo of Trivandrum on a warm south Indian winter morning from a hotel window.
January 31, 2026 at 4:44 AM
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Air India delayed my flight by more than two hours, and then made the plane so cold it felt they'd let in a draft from the outside, but I'm finally (tired and) in Thiruvananthapuram.
Blurry photo of Trivandrum at night from a hotel window.
January 30, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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We know who.
Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Hart, sitting at a wood-panelled bar in a dark blue jacket, holding a cigar. Subtitle text: But really, who wants inoffensive art?
January 29, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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Loved THE BONE TEMPLE. Dr. Kelson ascending to a mythical yet rationalist (Anti?)Christ figure in irrational times, spreading the gospel of the arts, free healthcare, well-regulated drugs, and compassion to lost souls in the wasteland. Goes hard, but fun too--I was bopping my head to the final act.
Still from The Bone Temple; Ralph Fiennes in Goth-y make-up and black overcoat, holding blonde Jack O'Connell's head. In the background, a torchlit ossuary at night.
January 22, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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Watched MERMAID LEGEND (1984) just yesterday, about a fisherwoman who is pushed to acts of violent vengeance against businessmen who want to build a nuclear power plant in a pristine coastal area. But the disease is systemic, and there's no one person to dispatch & right the world gone wrong.
A Japanese woman with black hair, in a white dress soaked red in blood, face drenched in the same, looking exhausted and staring into the distance. Subtitle text: They just keep coming...
January 21, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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INDUSTRY is not just good enough to do an episode that visually and thematically quotes Kubrick's filmography intensively, but to do so in a way that feels essential, sui generis, not just a gratuitous nod. Stunning work.
Still from Industry; a bearded white man in a white Elizabethan (?) shirt stands behind the window of a manor house, bathed in sunlight, looking ashen and on the brink of revelation. Subtitle text: We choose to be ruined rather than change.
January 20, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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MERMAID LEGEND (1984); Mari Shirato astonishingly powerful as a fisherwoman become vessel for elemental vengeance against the scourge of the Earth: corporate suits (& their Yakuza pals, not much difference). The violence is purgative, pointless: 'they keep coming'. Even the bosses have bosses.
Still from Mermaid Legend: A group of suited businessmen stand in the back of a truck at night, eyes/shades/glasses glimmering like they're demons. Still from Mermaid Legend: a lone figure in white sprawled on a black shore at night, the white line of surf demarcating black earth from black sky, the red dot of a buoy like a star in the dark. A Japanese woman, hair tied back, in a white kimono, framed by two white pieces of cloth hanging from her umbrella. Still from Mermaid Legend: A naked woman covered in dirt and blood sits in a dingy room next to a corpse, a beam of light cutting across the shadows from the window.
January 20, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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I think one week is a fair length of time for this virus to take a vacation in my body. They're very tiny, one week must be aeons. Enough, time to get moving. I'm sick of being sick.
January 18, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Och
Still from Sentimental Value; showing Stellan Skarsgard as a director, sitting in a living room in a dress shirt. Subtitle text: What happened to artistic freedom? Artists need liberty.
January 17, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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Which pairs perfectly with this masterpiece (which might also be a horror film that more people should be aware of? I can't tell)
Poster for The Devil's Bath, showing a white woman with dark hair from the back, running a string under her skin through two puncture wounds in her neck.
January 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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Arrested Development still of Tobias Funke--a skinny, bald, mustachioed white man wearing glasses--semi-nude and painted blue in a kitchen, smiling placidly.
January 15, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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Joachim Trier's SENTIMENTAL VALUE (2025); now among my favourite films about making movies/art. History casts its shadows on life, which casts its shadows on art, the solar constant humanity's burning desire to be seen & loved, lost in our own talent for inflicting pain both intimate and societal.
Still from Sentimental Value: three glowing panels of light cast on a shadow-black wooden floor, speckled with shadows of leaves outside. Still from Sentimental Value: a frame black with shadow, with a small rectangle of light from a doorway in centre-frame, occluded by the lines of a window and speckled with the trees outside, framing the silhouette of a human figure. Still from Sentimental Value: A frame mostly in shadow, with the left of the frame showing, in some streetlight, an arm on the wooden bannister of a porch, a cigarette glowing between the fingers of a man's hand. Still from Sentimental Value: a frame dark with shadow, centre-frame, a woman's head from behind, hair tied tight in a bun, the dim light revealing her slim shoulders and the straps of her dress. She is seated in a movie theatre, the credits of a film playing blurry in the background.
January 14, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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Please help Ahmad's family survive Israel's genocide in Gaza, which has left them homeless & starving in winter under renewed bombing. His mother urgently needs treatment for retinal disease, & is losing her eyesight. Bluesky's deletions have driven him to despair: chuffed.org/project/1572...
January 13, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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I mean
(the character speaking is a member of the House of Lords)
Still from the series Industry: a young woman and a man in a Lord's (?) robe in silhouette as they talk against the beautiful arched window of a vaulted interior of one of England's fancy government buildings. Subtitle text: And that woke shit Still from the series Industry: a young woman and a man in a Lord's (?) robe in silhouette as they talk against the beautiful arched window of a vaulted interior of one of England's fancy government buildings. Subtitle text: no longer moves the needle in this new world.
January 12, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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There are few shows that tap into the ever-shifting zeitgeist of the micro-era ridden 21st century with the penetrative precision of INDUSTRY. No lag. A show that feels, like a lot of great feel-bad art, like tonguing humanity's mouth ulcers (with coke, in this case).
Still from the series Industry: a young Black woman in an overcoat, standing on a bridge at night with the lights of London behind her. Subtitle text: Without an economic function Still from the series Industry: a young Black woman in an overcoat, standing on a bridge at night with the lights of London behind her. Subtitle text: society buries you before you're dead.
January 12, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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Egg drop sunset into the wintry pollutant soup over the twin cities of Kolkata and Howrah, divided by the Hooghly.
Photo of the sun setting orange as a yolk into the soupy haze over the skyline of Howrah over the Hooghly river, from the side of Kolkata.
January 12, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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Sometimes one must get away from the city for a weekend and sit by a pond in a farmhouse in winter cold that makes smoke of breath, if one can.
Photo of a pond in winter haze, lit up by fairy lights, surrounded by trees, at night. Two people in silhouette sitting by the pond talk to each other.
January 12, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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'Myheart breaking asIwatch mybaby Ghazal suffer in silence She living in harsh conditions hungry,cold,without basic necessities life.As amother,Ifeel powerless to protect her,Iam turning to you in desperate need help
Your support could save her
Pls don’t let her down🥺💔🙏' chuffed.org/project/1456...
Photo of a Palestinian mother holding a baby in a refugee tent. Photo of a baby in a refugee tent with a sign next to her, reading: Our tent was torn part by strong winds and rain My baby Ghazal is shivering from cold, hunger, We need warmth, food
January 12, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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I'll be chatting with Hemangini Dutt Majumder, Himanjali Sankar, and Oindrilla Dutt about the supernatural in fiction this Saturday (10th January, 4:20 PM to 5:10 PM, Alipore Museum) at the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2026. Come by if free and interested:
Banner for an event for the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2026; Alipore Museum, Saturday 10 January 2026, 4:20 pm - 5:10 pm. 'There are more things on heaven and earth, The Supernatural in fiction. Hemangini Dutt Majumder, Himanjali Sarkar, Indra Das, Moderator: Oindrila Dutt.
January 9, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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The original is superb; Schrader's CAT PEOPLE is a sicko banger too.
Still from Paul Schrader's Cat People, showing a stylised red sky and landscape with a bare tree, and a black panther sitting under it.
January 7, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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Hard to pick, but SPIRITED AWAY was the 1st Miyazaki film I watched in full, so it holds a special place. The life in that dragon! I was utterly enraptured, goosebumps in my dorm room watching it via Netflix DVD on my tiny scholarship laptop. Transformed my creative life forever.
Still from the anime Spirited Away, showing a young girl in red tunic and pants running in an open balcony looking out to a dazzling blue sea and sky with white clouds, among which a serpentine white dragong ripples amid a flock of what look like white birds.
January 5, 2026 at 7:42 PM