From Eeb Allay Ooo! / Courtesy of the director
Disclaimer: This essay and my accompanying interview with Prateek Vats reveal crucial plot details about the film.Eeb Allay Ooo!…
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The City Issue: Delhi in the Anthropocene
Blurring the Interspecies Divide: Eeb Allay Ooo! and Multispecies Cohabitation in Anthropocene Delhi
Novels Ahmed AliTwilight in DelhiHogarth Press, 1940 Nilanjana RoyThe WildingsAleph, 2012 Nilanjana RoyThe Hundr…
Anjani sharing food with the macaques / From Eeb Allay Ooo! / Courtesy of the director Eeb Allay Ooo! (2019), directed by Prateek Vats, is part of an emergent oeuvre of multispeci…
Illustration by Emily Holson, Mataji / @mayophoo Following a crisis, a doctor’s focus shifts to a mysterious infiltration.The little boy’s eyes were wide with terror. He sat on hi…
From the Capital in Transition series by Ravi Agarwal / raviagarwal.com / Reproduced by permission of the artist AsvatthaYou’ve taken your name literally:Asvattha: under w…
Still from All That Breathes (2022), dir. Shaunak Sen / Courtesy of Sundance Institute When long-haired androgynous creatures, flying over Delhi, begin to show up on Snapchat feeds and…
Photo by Manas Mistry / Alamy.com SahibiI am a fleck of shine, a shardof fin. My mouth, a parchmentdarting slick. They tell me I cannot liveunder this viscid film, but II do and I dream. I was ciph…
Photo by Radosław Kut / Flickr.com The road to Delhi is hot with a heat that is no respecter of persons.Shekhar was woken by a loud sound, like a cannon. He started awake, heart thumping,…
Photo from the Extinct? series by Ravi Agarwal / raviagarwal.com / Reproduced by permission of the artist It is a truth universally acknowledged that Bombay is the spiritual home for India…
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