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Devashish Makhija

Devashish Makhija has written and directed the full length award-winning feature films ‘Joram’, ‘Bhonsle’ and ‘Ajji’ – all three of which premiered at IFFR Rotterdam and BIFF Busan – and the multiple-award-winning short films ‘Cycle’, ‘Cheepatakadumpa’, ‘Taandav’, ‘El’ayichi’, ‘Agli Baar’, ‘Rahim Murge pe mat ro’, ‘Absent’, and ‘Happy’. ‘Bhonsle’ is streaming on SonyLiv; ‘Joram’, ‘Ajji’ and ‘Cheepatakadumpa’ on Amazon Prime Video. ‘Joram’ won two Filmfare Awards this year for Best Film (Critics) and Best Story; and two Film Critics Guild awards for Best Writing and Best Editing. ‘Bhonsle’ won a National Award and a Film Critics Guild award in 2021. Makhija began his journey as researcher & assistant on the iconic ‘Black Friday’ directed by Anurag Kashyap. His short and feature films have competed and won awards at the international film festivals of Rotterdam, Busan, Sydney, Chicago, Goteborg, Beaune, Black Nights, Mooov, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Durban, Tampere, MOMA, APSA, Barcelona, Singapore, Kerala, Mumbai, Dharamsala amongst many others. Makhija is a multi-practice artist. He has had his own solo art show ‘Occupying Silence’, and is a prolific writer, having written the bestselling children’s books ‘When Ali became Bajrangbali’, ‘Why Paploo was perplexed’ and ‘We are the dancing forest’, a collection of short stories ‘Forgetting’ (now republished as ‘Joram’), the multiple-award-winning YA novel ‘Oonga’, and the anthology of poetry ‘Bewilderness’. He has been widely published by the Sahitya Akademi, Harper-Collins, Penguin, Akashic, Red River, Tulika, Scholastic, and many others.

  • Bewilderness

    Devashish Makhija
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    Bewilderness

    Devashish Makhija

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    Devashish Makhija’s Bewilderness announces its visceral bridging of self and nature in its title. The baffling challenges are outside the self, coming at the self as a profusion of stimuli from the mega-city, nature’s receding kingdom, and the horrors of the political. But they are inside the self too, as it fashions itself from fragments of childhood memory, responses to paintings that hold out inspiration, and empathetic connections forged with vulnerable Others in predicaments of distress. These poems bear resonant witness to the age in which they are written – an age governed by the call of the siren and the insistence of the curfew, the militarization of civil life and the degradation of rivers and mountains. Bewilderness captivates us with its vividly palpable images, its exhilarating shifts of tempo, and its plangent, deeply moving tonality.

    – Ranjit Hoskote

     

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