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Postponed| Book Launch and Discussion| John-Ghatak-Tarkovsky: Citizens, Fillmakers, Hackers by Ashish Rajadhyaksha

We regret to announce that, due to unavoidable reasons, the book launch event scheduled to be held on Wednesday, 29 March 2023, 6 pm, at Kamaladevi Complex, India International Centre, New Delhi, has been postponed. We shall inform you of a new date soon.

John–Ghatak–Tarkovsky | Book Launch & Discussion| Wednesday, 29 March 2023

Book Launch & Discussion: John–Ghatak–Tarkovsky: Citizens, Filmmakers, Hackers by Ashish Rajadhyaksha, published by        SSAF–Tulika Books. On Wednesday, 29 March 2023, 6 pm onwards, at Seminar Halls 1, 2 & 3, Kamaladevi Complex, India International Centre, New Delhi (preceded by tea at 5.30 pm) In June 2015, students of the Film and Television Institute of India went on a strike. It was initially meant to be no more than symbolic resistance to what the[...]

Tulika Books announces its Year-End Sale, 26 December 2022 to 26 January 2023

Greetings from Tulika Books!   We invite you to yet another year-end online sale with a flat 30% discount on all our available titles, excluding courier charges, only at www.tulikabooks.in. The offer price is valid from 26 December 2022 through 26 January 2023. To check out our titles, please visit www.tulikabooks.in and browse through our titles under the menu tab "Books".                  For any query, please write to us at sales@tuli[...]

Githa Hariharan in Conversation with Saeed Mirza and Nachiket Patwardhan

Notable filmmaker Saeed Mirza and illustrator Nachiket Patwardhan's recent book, I Know the Psychology of Rats, tells the story of two friends who, over time, built a strong bond of trust and friendship during their film school days in Pune. The friends are Mirza and his beloved classmate, the director Kundan Shah, who gave us the 1983 cult classic Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron. At its launch, Mirza and Patwardhan spoke with novelist Githa Hariharan about the raison d'etre for writing and whether movies c[...]

IULP condemns Indonesia’s criminalization of Marxism

It is deeply concerning that the current government of Indonesia would reject rich heritage in favor of a dictatorship’s falsified version of history. On 6 December 2022, the Indonesian parliament passed a new criminal code. There is much to debate about this code, including the violations of the rights to equality before the law and equal protection as well as the right to privacy and the right to freedom of speech and association. One aspect of the law that has received little concern is[...]