There is perhaps hardly anyone better equipped to write this book. Amitava Nag is a well-known commentator on Bengali cinema and has previously written on the films of Ray, Soumitra Chatterjee’s oeuvre beyond Ray’s films, and a biography of Tapan Sinha. He has had a long personal association with him, the kind of access one can only dream of having with a leading film personality.
In 2016, India’s media and publishing industry employed 1.03 million people. By 2021, the number had fallen to 230,000. By 2022, India’s rank of the World Press Freedom Index fell from 133 to 150.
The genre has never taken root in Bollywood. Maybe because real-life horrors are enough to give us sleepless nights.
Bulgakov’s The Master & Margarita inspired Outlook’s recent issue on the politics of identity: “No ID, No Person.” Another popular line from the novel, ‘Manuscripts don’t burn’ resonates with two recent events
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