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Songs Of Forgotten Trees By Anupama Roy

Bengali filmmaker Anuparna Roy, originally from Purulia in West Bengal, has made a striking debut with her feature film Songs of Forgotten Trees, earning her the Best Director award in the Orizzonti section at the 82nd Venice Film Festival. The film, the only Indian entry among 19 contenders in that category, follows two migrant working women in Mumbai whose lives, separated by circumstance, gradually intertwine amid survival, quiet intimacy, and shared longings.

Read about it here.

'The Mountain' By Gorillaz

The Mountain', out March 20 next year, marks Gorillaz’ ninth studio album and their first on new label KONG. Recorded partly in Mumbai, New Delhi, Rajasthan, and Varanasi the 15-track album collaborations with legends like Asha Bhosle, Asha Puthli, Anoushka Shankar, Ajay Prasanna, and sarod maestros Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash. Infused with Indian classical textures and voices alongside global sounds, the album reflects the band’s spiritual journey through music and life’s vast terrains.

Listen to the first track from the album here.

'The Songs of Our People: Vol 2' By Anurag Banerjee

Anurag Banerjee’s The Songs of Our People: Vol 2 turns its lens toward the pioneers behind Meghalaya’s music scene — those mentors, teachers, and early artists who laid the foundation for the vibrant subcultures now flourishing there. Visually and structurally, Anurag signals the shift from presence to origin, where Vol 2’s portraits immerse readers in the lived spaces where music is made, underlining how culture grows from everyday life.

Find the book here.

Mother Mary Comes To Me By Arundhati Roy

In her new memoir, Arundhati Roy challenges the hallowed myths around motherhood and 'good daughterhood' in India, arguing that the veneration of mothers (as self-sacrificing, flawless figures) and the insistence on daughterly gratitude both serve to silence real experiences and dilute agency. Her book is as much a reckoning with familial love as it is a critique of the cultural expectations that bind mothers and daughters into impossible roles.

Read more about it here.

Sovabazar Urban Conservation

The Calcutta Heritage Collective (CHC), in collaboration with CEPT University, launched an exhibition reimagining Sovabazar-Sutanuti — one of Kolkata’s oldest, most layered neighbourhoods. Through student proposals and designs, the show explored adaptive reuse of colonial-mansions, fragile canals, and the public spaces in between, aiming to shift the preservation narrative away from just monuments toward a holistic urban revival.

Read about it here.

FILA x Almost Gods

In their new collaboration capsule drop, FILA and Almost Gods draws on brutalist architecture and elemental mysticism to bring FILA’s clay-court heritage into sculptural, exaggerated silhouettes and layered outerwear. The palette made up of ash, iron and oxidised reds reads like an imagined desert terrain, and familiar pieces (tennis skirts, nets, uniforms) are treated as cinematic artefacts.

Checkout the collection here.

Omen IV: Ascension By BONK Research Dept

Omen IV: Ascension is set to take over Pune with a collision of analogue electronics and heavy metal. Organised by the BONK Research Dept., the event strips away laptops for a DAW-less approach, relying on raw hardware — synths, drum machines, and distortion to create an atmosphere of calculated disorder. The lineup brings together acts like Glitch Rot, Deep East/Noble Luke, INDRAA, Slaughter Pit, Vomit Suit, and veteran death-metal band Atmosfear, spanning everything from dark-psy and noise to death-metal blast beats.

Get your tickets here.

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