Auteur: Sharmistha Gooptu

Covering the years spanning cinema’s emergence as a popular form in Bengal in the first half of the twentieth century, this book examines the main genres and trends produced by this cinema, and leads …

Covering the years spanning cinema’s emergence as a popular form in Bengal in the first half of the twentieth century, this book examines the main genres and trends produced by this cinema, and leads …

Covering the years spanning cinema’s emergence as a popular form in Bengal in the first half of the twentieth century, this book examines the main genres and trends produced by this cinema, and leads …

A telephone call from the studio, night of the new year1937. Menoka, heroine of Bharat Talkies, has hanged herself by her own sari, in costume for her new film Silent films are now the talkies. Biosc …

Sharmistha Gooptu is a founder and managing trustee of the South Asia Research Foundation (SARF), a not-for-profit research body based in India. SARF’s current project SAG (South Asian Gateway) is in …

The summer of 2024. Sixty-four-year-old Mrs G starts to reminisce about her love affair with a man she calls ‘;A’. To Aisha, her daughter, ‘;A’ appears to be a figment of her mother’s dementia-afflic …