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The Lost Synthesizer: How a Kolkata-based Computer Engineer is Redesigning the Vanishing Past of India’s Electronic Music

Introduction On August 20, 2025, at the Goethe-Institut in Kolkata, a Kolkata-based Computer Engineer and Sound Artist named Varun Desai sat down in front of a modular synthesizer…

Post date 29th October 2026
Post author By Sourav Saha

Time as Capital, Time as Cosmos: Kalighat and the Politics of Waiting

Last December, we walked through the red-brick corridors of the Alipore Jail Museum and entered an exhibition titled The Babu and the Bazaar: Art from 19th and Early…

Post date 9th March 2026
Post author By Sourav Saha

From Naad-Brahman to Noise-Brahman: The Invisible Acoustics of Caste in India

Introduction In the Ancient texts of the Vedas and Upanishads, Hindu cosmological thought advocates the theory of Naad-Brahman, translated as the Sound of Brahman. It posits that the…

Post date 3rd July 2025
Post author By Sourav Saha