April 4, 2025

Aryama Bhattacharya

Aryama Bhattacharya, having completed his post-graduation from the University of Delhi, is an aspiring journalist and literary critic. As a theatre practitioner, he has written and performed several stage productions, and composed lyrics and musical scores for the same. His academic interests include postcolonial history and languages, studies in subaltern-hood and migration, violence and memory, and the politics of narrative and information.

August 7, 2023
Aryama Bhattacharya
Criticism, Poem

Welcome to the Wasteland: Kolatkar and the Anti-aesthetic

Aryama explores Kolatkar’s poetry, exploring waste and marginality, challenging insignificance, and embracing newness in ordinary and discarded forms, exclusively for Different Truths. “The flies the putrid belly buzzed about,...

July 25, 2023
Aryama Bhattacharya
Identity, Politics

Postcolonial Maharashtra and Bengal’s Political Societies, Identity & Urban Dynamics

Aryama in a demographic study examines political societies, governmentality, and naming in Maharashtra and Bengal’s postcolonial metropolises—exclusively for Different Truths The Shiv Sena in Maharashtra, after four decades of...

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Welcome to the Wasteland: Kolatkar and the Anti-aesthetic

Postcolonial Maharashtra and Bengal’s Political Societies, Identity & Urban Dynamics

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