Vulnerability studies explicate how individuals or certain groups are othered by pre-existing power structures, relational imbalance or personal struggles. It involves identifying and analysing the frailties of individuals, systemic forces. It also depicts how vulnerability can lead someone to consequences…

Adapted from the short story “Abataranika” (“Introduction”) by Narendranath Mitra (1916-79), Mahanagar (The Big City) (1963) is considered to be one Satyajit Ray’s (1929-92) most masterly directed films. Set in 1950s Calcutta, the film zooms in on the quotidian drama…