Indrapramit Das
@indrapramitdas.bsky.social
aka Indra Das, author of THE DEVOURERS and THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, Lambda, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award winner, Crawford Award finalist. he/they/she
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Support has fallen steeply since the 'ceasefire', and Ahmad is feeling abandoned, with only 446 euros in donations for his new fundraiser, not enough to buy a tent as winter rain floods Gaza. Please share widely & give if you can.
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Support has fallen steeply since the 'ceasefire', and Ahmad is feeling abandoned, with only 446 euros in donations for his new fundraiser, not enough to buy a tent as winter rain floods Gaza. Please share widely & give if you can.
Incidentally, this is a still from Rajamouli's latest epic. If westerners go into a frenzy about how great this almost certainly genAI-boosted soft saffron nationalist propaganda hogwash looks and elevate it to masterpiece status like RRR I shall spin in my not-yet-grave.
November 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Incidentally, this is a still from Rajamouli's latest epic. If westerners go into a frenzy about how great this almost certainly genAI-boosted soft saffron nationalist propaganda hogwash looks and elevate it to masterpiece status like RRR I shall spin in my not-yet-grave.
Watched BIG (1988) on the plane after decades, funny how the aspect of a film about a 12 yo who wishes himself into an adult & becomes the rich VP of a toy corp with a fake social security number that I struggled to suspend disbelief for was a kind, emotionally intelligent CEO (Robert Loggia ftw).
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Watched BIG (1988) on the plane after decades, funny how the aspect of a film about a 12 yo who wishes himself into an adult & becomes the rich VP of a toy corp with a fake social security number that I struggled to suspend disbelief for was a kind, emotionally intelligent CEO (Robert Loggia ftw).
Adapted by Isao Takahata into one of the most beautiful & heartbreaking animated (& otherwise) films ever made, THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (2013).
November 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Adapted by Isao Takahata into one of the most beautiful & heartbreaking animated (& otherwise) films ever made, THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (2013).
Unbelievable.
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Unbelievable.
A last sunset in the Parma hills before tomorrow's farewell. Back to Kolkata, where chaos reigns, fresh air is a memory of green, and hills lie ever beyond the smoky horizon. I know how lucky I am, though.
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
A last sunset in the Parma hills before tomorrow's farewell. Back to Kolkata, where chaos reigns, fresh air is a memory of green, and hills lie ever beyond the smoky horizon. I know how lucky I am, though.
Listening to 'Hoppipolla/Med Blodnasir' by Sigur Ros while two horses come up to say hello to you on a hushed and frostmelting early winter morning; cringe to some, momentary peace to others.
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Listening to 'Hoppipolla/Med Blodnasir' by Sigur Ros while two horses come up to say hello to you on a hushed and frostmelting early winter morning; cringe to some, momentary peace to others.
Looking at The Last Supper, the paintings & statues crawling over the walls & ceilings of cathedrals in Parma this month, I thought always of their human artists reaching through time, their inner worlds & effort suspended in art. & then of shitheads typing out a prompt to spew synthetic pap.
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Looking at The Last Supper, the paintings & statues crawling over the walls & ceilings of cathedrals in Parma this month, I thought always of their human artists reaching through time, their inner worlds & effort suspended in art. & then of shitheads typing out a prompt to spew synthetic pap.
Later, on a night walk, I saw a moondog chase the Moon, an iridescent celestial ghost. I walked up an unlit path, and something bark-laughed from the treeline, loud, twice, sending me scampering back indoors. Probably just a fox, but monsters bred gleeful in the dark of my mind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Later, on a night walk, I saw a moondog chase the Moon, an iridescent celestial ghost. I walked up an unlit path, and something bark-laughed from the treeline, loud, twice, sending me scampering back indoors. Probably just a fox, but monsters bred gleeful in the dark of my mind.
Moonrise over the hills of Parma province yesterday. I miss the hulks of the creasing Earth so much, living in the flat lands of Kolkata.
November 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Moonrise over the hills of Parma province yesterday. I miss the hulks of the creasing Earth so much, living in the flat lands of Kolkata.
Doesn't feel like Halloween in northern Italy, though the skies are clouded and the air misty with autumnal rain. But I did get to see The Last Supper today. I believe it portrays the undead son of a god before his death. It's pretty goddamn gorgeous.
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Doesn't feel like Halloween in northern Italy, though the skies are clouded and the air misty with autumnal rain. But I did get to see The Last Supper today. I believe it portrays the undead son of a god before his death. It's pretty goddamn gorgeous.
PHANTASM IV: OBLIVION is probably the first time I've seen a horror movie series do a feature length clip show episode, but I'm such a sucker for this kind of thing that I enjoyed the stuff in between the recaps.
October 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
PHANTASM IV: OBLIVION is probably the first time I've seen a horror movie series do a feature length clip show episode, but I'm such a sucker for this kind of thing that I enjoyed the stuff in between the recaps.
Wrightson's spectacular art for CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF was what first drew me into Stephen King as a child (found the book at the Calcutta Book Fair, needled my parents into buying it), a pretty big milestone for the path to becoming a writer.
October 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Wrightson's spectacular art for CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF was what first drew me into Stephen King as a child (found the book at the Calcutta Book Fair, needled my parents into buying it), a pretty big milestone for the path to becoming a writer.
PHANTASM III: LORD OF THE DEAD (1994)
I watched all the Phantasm(s) except the last this month, and I love this series--the sharp juxtaposition of silly and haunting, the kind of marvellously pungent low-budget cheese that sends you dreaming (of implacable death).
I watched all the Phantasm(s) except the last this month, and I love this series--the sharp juxtaposition of silly and haunting, the kind of marvellously pungent low-budget cheese that sends you dreaming (of implacable death).
October 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
PHANTASM III: LORD OF THE DEAD (1994)
I watched all the Phantasm(s) except the last this month, and I love this series--the sharp juxtaposition of silly and haunting, the kind of marvellously pungent low-budget cheese that sends you dreaming (of implacable death).
I watched all the Phantasm(s) except the last this month, and I love this series--the sharp juxtaposition of silly and haunting, the kind of marvellously pungent low-budget cheese that sends you dreaming (of implacable death).
A nice bit of serendipitous syncing with the future-present that the language of the Andromedan Capitalist Overlords in Carpenter's THEY LIVE resembles QR codes (they also use invisible drones for surveillance).
October 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A nice bit of serendipitous syncing with the future-present that the language of the Andromedan Capitalist Overlords in Carpenter's THEY LIVE resembles QR codes (they also use invisible drones for surveillance).
Omg I am Very excited for this. Such a great match. (BLACK HOLE is fantastic, but Burns hasn't lost it since; his 2024 comic FINAL CUT is brilliant too, an equally potent meditation on living out of sync with the world & behind the facades of art, through the eyes of a likely neurodivergent artist)
October 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Omg I am Very excited for this. Such a great match. (BLACK HOLE is fantastic, but Burns hasn't lost it since; his 2024 comic FINAL CUT is brilliant too, an equally potent meditation on living out of sync with the world & behind the facades of art, through the eyes of a likely neurodivergent artist)
Local Kali on her last night before immersion. The dhak drummer plays on, for the last time this year. In this pandal, at least, which will be gone soon.
October 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Local Kali on her last night before immersion. The dhak drummer plays on, for the last time this year. In this pandal, at least, which will be gone soon.
Another lantern (2 took to the skies, 4 failed and burned, affronted by their brief lives in the demon-haunted world).
October 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Another lantern (2 took to the skies, 4 failed and burned, affronted by their brief lives in the demon-haunted world).
Still life with lantern corpse and Diwali/Kali Pujo haze.
October 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Still life with lantern corpse and Diwali/Kali Pujo haze.
Lantern-raising on Diwali, each year a flaming wish sent to the sky for the fall of the regime, but this year we forgot (none of them has worked so far).
October 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Lantern-raising on Diwali, each year a flaming wish sent to the sky for the fall of the regime, but this year we forgot (none of them has worked so far).
Incanting eldritch corpo-speak like 'identify the best path forward to unlock the value of our assets' to describe art radiates evil in such a way that it should at least emerge from someone decked out like the Mouth of Sauron, but alas ours is realm of Banal (Evil) Earth.
October 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Incanting eldritch corpo-speak like 'identify the best path forward to unlock the value of our assets' to describe art radiates evil in such a way that it should at least emerge from someone decked out like the Mouth of Sauron, but alas ours is realm of Banal (Evil) Earth.
A Kali off Gariahat feeds her voracious and suspiciously rodent-like jackal blood.
October 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
A Kali off Gariahat feeds her voracious and suspiciously rodent-like jackal blood.
It's erratically paced & edited, but also given a rather gorgeous, decaying silvery luster by the original's DP, Daniel Pearl, who does very different work here. The coldness of the visuals again reflecting something more calculated than the sun-bleached primal horror of the original.
October 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It's erratically paced & edited, but also given a rather gorgeous, decaying silvery luster by the original's DP, Daniel Pearl, who does very different work here. The coldness of the visuals again reflecting something more calculated than the sun-bleached primal horror of the original.
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (2003) obviously can't match the evil poetry of the original, but reframing the story around a vile cop (an excellent Ronald Lee Ermey) as the all-American monster has aged well. The institutional malevolence of Law vs. the earthing of cosmic Chaos through humanity.
October 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (2003) obviously can't match the evil poetry of the original, but reframing the story around a vile cop (an excellent Ronald Lee Ermey) as the all-American monster has aged well. The institutional malevolence of Law vs. the earthing of cosmic Chaos through humanity.
No surprise that this guy was in the US army (& has 'antifa' in bio, no less).
October 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
No surprise that this guy was in the US army (& has 'antifa' in bio, no less).