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Of the Book and Other Stories
Celebrating the Fortieth Anniversary of Seagull Books
Speakers
110 minutes | English and Hindi | English subtitles
Directed by Pushan Kripalani
Authors, booksellers and artists in India and abroad reflect on their role in this theatre of publishing where hesitant, unconventional ideas find their place on the page.
Of the Book and Other Stories documents insights from some of the lives Seagull has touched over the last four decades: Romila Thapar, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Ravish Kumar, Anjum Katyal, Urvashi Butalia, Rick Simonson, Peter Maravelis, Alice Attie, Namita Gokhale, Siddharth Basu, Sanjoy Roy, Sumit Lai Roy, Katy Lai Roy, Samik Bandyopadhyay and Jeff Deutsch among others.
Also featuring interviews with the Seagull team, especially Naveen Kishore who shares fragments of his extraordinary journey from theatre-lighting designer to publisher, the film explores how Seagull Books remains proudly at home in Calcutta but is truly a publisher for and of the world.
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Speakers
Pushan Kripalani
Pushan Kripalani is a film and theatre director and cinematographer. He graduated with a degree in English literature and works at film, theatre and for the radio, in capacities ranging from director to actor to designer, musician and producer. He is a founder member of the Industrial Theatre Co. He has made several documentaries and two feature films, The Threshold (2015), and Goldfish (2023).
Naveen Kishore
Naveen Kishore is a photographer, lighting designer, poet and publisher, Seagull Books.
Kavya Murthy
Kavya Murthy is a writer, editor, researcher, and content strategist for digital platforms. She curates books and events for Champaca Bookstore. She lives in Mysore, enjoys the tango, and is a lapsed sociologist.
Arundhati Ghosh
Arundhati is a poet in Bangla and sometimes writes in English. She works in the cultural sector.
