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Dr Kaustav Bakshi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Jadavpur University. Bakshi has written widely on topics of gender, sexuality, and popular culture. He has spoken on issues related to gender and sexuality in postcolonial South Asia at Colombia University, Birbeck,…
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Rituparno Ghosh was a gender nonconforming, sexually dissident filmmaker who made and acted in films revolving around openly homosexual, bisexual and transgender characters. For his work, he won accolades including national awards in India and recognition at film festivals around the world. In 2013…
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Rituparno Ghosh emerged in the world of Bengali cinema at a time when Bengal was dealing with a depressive vacuum left by the loss of the master filmmakers who shaped the region’s cultural landscape. Ghosh’s debut directorial venture, Hirer Angti, released in 1992, the same year in which Satyajit…
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Rituparno Ghosh (1963–2013), the gender nonconformist, homosexual Bengali filmmaker, created a space for sexual and gender minorities on the silver screen. With seven national and international awards, he was recipient of a kind of stardom that was unprecedented for any publicly known queer person…
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Jyotiprasad Agarwala was born in 1903 to Kironmoyee and Paramananda Agarwala in Tamulbari, Assam. This was a time when momentous developments were taking place throughout the sociopolitical landscape of India. The freedom struggle against the British control of India was growing in strength.…
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Jyotiprasad Agarwala was born in 1903 to Kironmoyee and Paramananda Agarwala in Tamulbari, Assam. This was a time when momentous developments were taking place throughout the sociopolitical landscape of India. The freedom struggle against the British control of India was growing in strength.…
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Introduction
Poet, playwright, music composer and political activist, Jyotiprasad Agarwala (1903–51) is widely regarded as one of the brightest lights in the firmament of Assamese cultural nationalism. He left behind a corpus of over 300 songs set to self-composed melodies, popularly referred to as…
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Introduction and Concerns
Few cinemas in the world can claim that the first film in their history focused on a woman protagonist, depicted in politically assertive terms. Assamese cinema commands this distinction. The film in question is a freedom fighter and cultural pioneer Jyotiprasad Agarwala’s…
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The name of Jyotiprasad Agarwala is intrinsically linked to the artistic milieu of modern Assam. An accomplished author, playwright, essayist and musician, Agarwala was the archetypal Renaissance man of twentieth-century Assam. Despite his many talents, it is perhaps for his cinematic achievements…
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Ankush Bhuyan (AB): Tell us a little about yourself and your childhood.
Satyashree Das (SD): When we were very young, we lost our parents, so we grew up with our uncles in Tezpur. We were with father for five years in Tamulbari, and I have vivid memories from those times. It was by the end of 1945…
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