Utsa Sarmin

Utsa Sarmin is an Audio Producer at Indian Express. She has previously written for national and international news organizations. She has done her MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge.

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The narrative shuttles between past and present, countries and continents, weaving a tale of love, loneliness, longing, and death, perforated by moments of wit, humour, and joy. Each story is interconnected like water “that connects them all in time and space and always has”

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How a centuries-old story of a Bengali writer finds new echoes in a Spanish animator’s filmSubscriber Only

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The animation film celebrates women through Sultana’s Dream, a story of Bengali writer-activist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Sat, Sep 30, 2023

Associate professor and joint secretary of the Little Magazine Library, Snigdha Bandopadhyay, at the library, on College Street, Kolkata. (Credit: Shashi Ghosh)

The legacy of Sandip Datta’s little magazine librarySubscriber Only

September 16, 2023 14:00 IST

From giving up lunch and cigarettes to taking up part-time jobs, Datta’s obsession with little magazines led to a library, at Kolkata's College Street, that kept a part of Bengal’s history alive

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Why, as a woman born into a Muslim family, I have reservations about the Uniform Civil CodeSubscriber Only

June 30, 2023 15:52 IST

A party which thinks criminalising Muslim men is the primary strategy to address a complex socio-political issue justly raises concerns about the obsessive push for the UCC. But Muslim bodies have been silent too. Muslim women are now forced to choose between their rights and their community

Sun, Jul 02, 2023

Noida row over bachelor tenants: Desperately searching for the ‘ideal’ tenantSubscriber Only

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The economy is changing, as is society, but homeowners and housing societies are holding on to past notions of family and stability

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No matter how you celebrate Karwa Chauth, it is not a feminist choiceSubscriber Only

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‘Choice feminism’ is such a success because it is convenient. It is easier than questioning our own privileges and complicities which aid, and not hinder, patriarchal domination.

Mon, Jul 03, 2023