Indrapramit Das

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aka Indra Das, author of THE DEVOURERS and THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, Lambda, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award winner, Crawford Award finalist. he/they/she indradas.com

Still from Possession; a large, sparsely furnished, gloomy European apartment bedroom with dingy yellow wallpaper, blinds drawn over the large window dimming the daylight across the wooden floors, and a mattress covered in sickly green on the floor, upon which lies a vaguely humanoid shape, red and wet as a newborn, limbs perhaps like tentacles. In the foreground, a white woman in a blue dress she is taking off to reveal her bare back, her long, dark brown hair against her slender shoulders.
Still from O Brother, Where Art Though; a white man (character actor Daniel von Bargen) in a sheriff's uniform, wearing goggle-like black-tinted sunglasses, from the chest up, standing in a sunlit yard with trees behind him. Subtitle text: 'The law is a human institution.'
Banner showing two Palestinians: Amir, a young man crying while holding up a broken phone, and his mother, a middle-aged woman lying in bed with an eyepatch sleeping. Text: 'My name is Amir Shamala, from...Gaza, Palestine. I live in a torn tent with my father. We are living in very difficult conditions & struggling to survive every day. My mother is seriously ill. She has a dangerous condition in her eye...She urgently needs surgery outside Gaza, but the borders are closed...For now, we can only afford...medical supplies to temporarily treat the bleeding & reduce her pain. My only phone...is broken. I urgently need a new phone so I can continue working & asking for help for my mother. I am doing everything I can to save my mother & survive....Please help my mother & me. Your support can make a real difference. For urgent assistance & verification: +970597440040'
Still from O Brother Where Art Thou?; three 'sirens' bathing in a river in Mississippi, surrounded by lush trees.
Amir, a young Palestinian man, holding his broken phone and crying.
Pencil drawing of a Cyclops from the shoulders and neck up--resembling a muscular, bald man with a single eye in his forehead, and what looks like ritualistic scars across his face.
Still from Leviticus, showing two young white men sitting next to each other on a bus at night, their faces close enough to kiss, eyes closed, mouths obscured by the arm and hand of one of them placed across the bus window, seen from outside.
Still from Aniara, showing a white brunette woman sitting on the floor of what appears to be a yellow void.
Still from Backrooms, showing what looks like a strip mall with chain stores/restaurants, but with the signs looking wrong--nonsensical, glitchy. Instead of a parking lot in front, there is carpeted floor, upon which shopping carts are strewn, some merging into the ground, and trees grow under the yellow light of not a sky, but an office ceiling with light panels.
Still from Serpent's Path (1998); a man kneeling in silhouette against a bank of CRT TV screens showing a little Japanese girl among greenery. The rest of the frame is shadow.
It's anti Italian discrimination (Sopranos meme)
Still from Dead Calm; young Billy Zane, shirtless, grabbing a young Nicole Kidman under the chin and getting up close to her face from behind creepily, under bright sunlight on a boat.
Still from Dead Calm; a sailboat (yacht?) glows white against the black sea and night sky at night, stars sprinkled across the dark, a flare blooming and casting red violet reflections on the waves.
Graphic with photos of a Palestinian woman with an eye patch, lying down, with her son Amir, a young man, next to her, and a crying boy, Amir's brother Sanad, next to her as well. Text: 'Save my mother's sight. She can only see with one eye. She is in pain every single day. We need your help before it's too late. My mother is suffering from a severe eye disease. She can only see with one eye. The other eye is bleeding inside. She needs urgent treatment & expensive eye drops. Every day her pain gets worse. We need 120 pounds for her medicine. 'I'm the only one trying to protect my family. My father is ill & cannot work. We are 7 people living in a tent in Mawasi Khan Younis. No medicine. No treatment. No hope... except you.'
Still from The Vampire Lestat, showing Louis (a vampire formerly a Black man, wearing black) crouching over a severed head on the ground of a front lawn at night, saying 'Except I didn't disrespect my face like you done'.
Poster for Naked Lunch, showing a figure sitting on a black box obscured under a white sheet, with something on top of them, visible poking out of the sheet are the figure's slender, pale bare legs, one of them with a stocking (or layer of skin?) peeling down to the ankle, and the butt and spindly legs of a giant insect that is sitting on the figure's lap (and also obscured by the sheet). The poster's background is white, with vivid red kanji on top, with smaller black kanji falling down like flakes of ash.
Still from The Furious, showing actor/martial artist Miao Xie dressed in black and poised on a pile of goons with a hammer raised inside an MMA ring/octagon.
'If you're based in India, we also added new reporting language about our obligations if you violate applicable law.'
'Ah shit, here we go again' meme from GTA San Andreas showing a Black man walking down an empty road in-game with the subtitle text on screen.
Still from Disclosure Day, showing a man in a police uniform from behind looking up at a bright UFO hovering close to the ground above joshua trees in a dusky desert.
Photo of a bazaar with stalls of mangoes under green light, and pedestrians on the footpath, all amid a dense urban lattice of scaffolding, wires, and buildings in north Kolkata.
Photo of a little brownish-grey-white cat sitting on a footpath/pavement by the feet of pedestrians.
Charcoal pencil drawing of a dragon with wings outstretched and tail like a whiplash as it soars through what is meant to be a grey and storm-heavy monsoon sky over Calcutta.
Photo of an elderly man in shirt and trousers leaning against a rail by the side of a road in central Kolkata, in front of a stall brightly lit with flourescent lights, selling shirts. By him is a lamppost wrapped in haphazard wires. Above the street level stalls are visible the minarets of a yellow and green mosque against the black night sky.
Javier Bardem as Max Cady from the new Cape Fear series, speaking into a prison phone across from someone behind the plexiglass barrier, looking angry. Subtitle text: 'They made me a motherfucker. I became a motherfucker to survive.'
Cover for the anthology The Book of the Dead, edited by Jonathan Strahan, Illustrated by Galen Dara. Title and credits in white text over a painting of a skull-faced, stylised apparition wreathed in ectoplasmic robes hovering against a night sky and crowned by the moon, with the dark shape of a hill and a tombstone behind it.
Photo of Umar Khalid, a young Indian man with close cropped black hair and beard in glasses, wearing a white t-shirt that reads '[You can cage the singer but not the song]' and showing the peace sign as he prepares to return to prison.
Heavy armour Batman with glowing eyes in the rain from Batman vs Superman Dawn of Justice
Still from Sisu: Road to Revenge showing the titular character peeping out of a truck on a country road, looking at a huge explosion in the distance in an adjoining meadow.
Still from Night Patrol showing Justin Long and some other white dudes playing evil cops in a warehouse.
Still from Good Boy, showing the titular canid good boy in a forest with a creepy black figure in the background.
Still from Cold Storage, showing Liam Neeson talking to a couple other people next a car's open boot.
Still from Sirat showing a van and a truck parked in a desert along with camping people sitting around.
Still from Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die showing two people pinned to a wall along with metal objects as wire tendrils approach them.
Still from Obsession, showing a young woman with long black hair and a pale brown complexion staring into a camera with an exaggerated scowl that makes her look like a live action emoji.
Kolkata skyline in the afternoon, silvery under stormclouds and rain.
Charcoal drawing of a serpentine, dragonic black creature with obsidian fangs in a vaguely canid face with glowing eyes, hissing with a multi-forked tongue.
A photo of a Kolkata street corner at night. There is a sign on a small building with corrugated tin roofs, that reads 'SNACKING All Day Cafe' with an arrow pointing left, a cycle by the foothpath under a streetlamp pole tangled with wires, and a corner stall selling various things.
Still from Maximum Risk, showing JCVD from below on top of a smoky upturned van, raising a booted foot to smash a window.
Still from Maximum Risk, showing a white moustachioed man in a suit (a cop goon) at a driver's seat, flinching back as a very real tire and flames appear to crash through his car window.
Jean Claude Van Damme and Stefanos Miltsakakis, both muscular white men, sweaty and wearing just white towels as they brawl in a bathhouse. Stefanos is bear hugging JVCD from behind.
Skinner in the 'no, it's the children who are wrong' meme from The Simpsons.
Still from Faces of Death, showing a middle-aged Asian-American man tied up and gagged with red tape, standing against a white spotlit door in a basement room, surrounded by mannequins with guns.
A masc blonde, light-complexioned angel embracing a femme brunette, red-complexioned demon, their wings outstretched as they hover in midair against an orange sky. Cover for Hellblazer #60 by Glenn Fabry.
Still from Nowhere, close shot of a man's muscular arms (brown complexioned) being tied behind his back with a black belt as he lies on his side, his hip clad in blue jeans visible. A white woman's hands are visible doing the tying. They're on a white couch, on which lies a book by Nietzsche (the title isn't visible).
Still from The Battle of Algiers, showing a man handing over another injured man to other to carry away amid the rubble of a bombed house. Their arms are interlinked, the muscles straining with effort, a human chain.
Still from The Battle of Algiers, showing a group of women doing a young woman's hair as she waits for her wedding. Her pensive expression is visible in the mirror. Subtitle text: Remember, we are at war against colonialism.
Photo of the Victoria Memorial in Kolkata under a pale grey afternoon sky.
Madhabi Mukherjee (a dark-haired Bengali woman) and Anil Chatterjee in a still of their faces, lined with worry, Madhabi's tear streaked, standing next to each other, from the film Mahanagar. Subtitle text: Earning our daily bread has made us cowards.
Photo of the sky from under the verandah of a cabin on the slope of a mountain. The slanted roof at the top of the frame rhymes with the slope of the trees visible beyond the balcony. A supply shed stands by the trees.
Photo of the Calcutta skyline with lush trees and pale buildings accentuated by a gradient of grey clouds on the horizon that looks vaguely like a mountain slope shrouded in cloud.
Frank Langella in skull makeup and a hood holding on to a stagg with gloved hands and leering theatrically at the camera as Skeletor.
Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music, wearing a suit and tearing a nazi flag apart with his hands in front of a manor house.
Still from Barbarella; a blonde white woman (Jane Fonda) floats sideways as she sheds her spacesuit like a snakeskin, her limbs bare and golden hair unruly in zero-g, in a chamber with rough golden-brown walls and a metal statue of a woman in greco-roman style as a counterpoint on the right of her in the frame.
Still from DTF St. Louis, showing a slender white middle-aged man in glasses, topless, with his arms up and hands curled and limp, almost infantile, as he looks up at a larger man, also white, in briefs, visible only partially from behind, as the latter man holds him by the arms. The thinner man's face is partially obscured by the larger man's arm and his own hands--but we see what looks like love, longing, confusion, sadness, trepidation in his eyes.
Still from The Mission, showing five men holding handguns, in suits and/or coats, standing isolated from each other in defensive and offensive postures in a wide shot of a mall. They look like characters in an experimental stage play.