The Running News Where connectivity and roads end, their realm begins. Trying to make sense of a flickering-dying legacy profession
Between the making of the documentary
The Last Run and now lie a dozen and more life-altering months. Narratives of living that would have had to jostle for attention in the pre-pandemic scene and sensibility, bloom better today. Stories of redundancy mean something.
The 37-minute documentary by Anirban Dutta is on
dak harkaras, the Bengali phrase for postal runners. “I have been very interested in postal history, in its workings in even the remotest parts of India and the fact that it is a lifeline for a lot of people,” Dutta tells