Contributor Bios List of Abbreviations Introduction: Resistance in the digitised present - Shweta Kishore and Kunal Ray Part 1. Critical perspectives on documentary aesthetics and form Chapter 1. The corporeality of homelessness in Cities of Sleep: social aesthetics and an unreliable narrator - Shweta Kishore Chapter 2: "Canine Spaces": Kolkata's Slum Dogs - Veena Hariharan Chapter 3 : "Threadbearing": Journeys with our Subjects and our Documentary Narratives - K P Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro Part II. Representation of lived experience Chapter 4: Personal is Political: Documentary and Intimacy - Shabnam Sukhdev Chapter 5: Making films from and about the Margins - Lipika Singh Darai Chapter 6: Against all odds - a filmmaker's quest to make films in North-East India - Haobam Paban Kumar Chapter 7: Experiencing and Representing Conflict: Encounters of a Kashmiri Filmmaker - Raja Shabir Khan Chapter 8: Documentary & Oppositional Bahujan Agency - Jyoti Nisha Part III. Resistance in practice Chapter 9: Curating Documentary Film and Video Art in a Museum: Reflections from Loss and Transience - Rashmi Devi Sawhney & Lucía Imaz Kin g Chapter 10: Working with Time: Editing the Documentary - Sameera Jain Chapter 11: Cultural Documentary: Dialogues Between Aesthetics and Society - Ein Lall Chapter 12: The Politics of Image Making - R V Ramani Chapter 13: Two Starting Points: The Sonic in my Films - Yashaswini Chapter 14: Conversations, Confusions, Confessions: Living with and Working in Cinema - Anupama Srinivasan Chapter 15: About Critique: Indian Media & Documentary Cinema - Kunal Ray & Mochish KS Epilogue: On Building Documentary Cultures of Resistance, An interview with K.P. Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro.