Shoma A. Chatterji

Wasim Kapoor painter
Arts & Photography

Wasim Kapoor: A Vision Unveiled

In the 1980s, he had done a series called Anti-Burqa from which a mother-daughter portrait made it to the cover of Desh, the prestigious Bengali literary magazine.

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Vijay Tendulkar playwright
Chronicles

Looking Back at Vijay Tendulkar’s Cyclewallah

Cyclewallah strides across many genres. It is a political critique of the family as we know it. It is also a strong social statement on contemporary young men and women being systematically stripped of their freedom in the name of protection and safety from dangers ‘outside’.

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feminist film festival
Lifestyle & Gastronomique

A Film Festival that Embodied the Feminist Spirit

The festival was organised by Jagori and Kriti Film Club as part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence, and was curated by Aanchal Kapoor and the noted documentary filmmaker Rina Mohan.

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chidananda dasgupta critic
Feature

Chidananda Dasgupta – Centenary Tribute

The turning point came in 1946 when I attacked an essay penned by noted author Buddhadev Bose in Parichay. The impressed editors, Hiren Mukherjee and Niren Roy, asked me to write for them. In 1947, Satyajit Ray, Harisadhan Dasgupta, fresh from the UCLA, and I, founded the Calcutta Film Society.

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