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Obsolete Skygazer_Enlightened Observer_Ignorant Truthseeker_Emaciated Entourage

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Obsolete Skygazer_Enlightened Observer_Ignorant Truthseeker_Emaciated Entourage

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This experimental video essay takes the history of a printing press associated with Harinath Majumder, one of nineteenth-century Bengal's pioneering rural journalists, as a way of examining colonial modernity, knowledge production, social hierarchy, and competing systems of truth. The film connects the printing press used for Grambarta Prakashika with Majumder's later transformation into the mystic/folk figure Kangal Fikir Chand, bringing together archival imagery, colonial-era objects, astronomy, folk practices, famine imagery, contemporary ferry crossings, religious iconography, and reflections on modernity.

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Pinak Banik
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