Indian Boardgames, Colonial Avatars:  Transculturation, Colonialism and Boardgames My latest book is out now. Although I haven't yet g...

I've been toying with returning to Gonzalo Frasca's work on Augusto Boal for a while now. Recently, I was able to visit Badu in Madh...

  Gautam Sen Memorial Boardgames Museum Trying to address the lack of any public resource on ancient boardgames in Kolkata, the Gautam Sen M...

 So my new book is out. You can get it on the Bloomsbury website:  https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/videogames-in-the-indian-subcontinent-97893...

Suniti Chattopadhyay, in his 1913 article ‘Hostel Life in Calcutta’, describes adda as 'a social activity or a space for a carefree tal...

Covid-19 has left its indelible dark mark over my family. My dad-in-law, Gautam Sen, passed away recently felled by that dread disease. He w...

So here's me presenting on boardgames and culture in the Indian Museum's Stories of World Cultures series. The series was started a...

Returning to  Ludus Ex  and gaming after a long absence, I have many stories to tell. Of the Covid-19 pandemic and being locked down for t...