January 23, 2021

Pause a minute to watch "Unpaused"

January 23, 2021/ Deepak Sarma

Watched "Unpaused" (Netflix 2020), a collection of 5 short films concerning Covid and post-Covid life in India. I enjoyed the majority of these shorts which evoked sorrow, loneliness, desperation, love, and hope during the time of Covid. While many were predictable that did not reduce their strength or their ability to induce the intended sthayibhava (emotion). Several also addressed issues concerning social justice --including sexual abuse and sexual harassment, disparities in social class, treatment of migrant workers and so on. I am considering using these in my class on Bollywood and Social Justice. Grade for film: "A." Recommended.

Deepak Sarma

Dr. Deepak Sarma, professor of South Asian religions and philosophy at Case Western Reserve University, is the author of Classical Indian Philosophy: A Reader (2011), Hinduism: A Reader (2008), Epistemologies and the Limitations of Philosophical Inquiry: Doctrine in Madhva Vedanta (2005) and An Introduction to Madhva Vedanta (2003).

He was a guest curator of Indian Kalighat Paintings, an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He is a curatorial consultant for the Department of Asian Art of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

After earning a BA in religion from Reed College, Sarma attended the University of Chicago Divinity School, where he received a PhD in the philosophy of religions. His current reflections concern cultural theory, racism, and post-colonialism.

Deepak Sarma

Deepak Sarma

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Deepak Sarma

Deepak Sarma