Book Launch
The Face of Bengali Cinema
Sanghamitra Chakraborty and Arundhati Ghosh.
Experience the complete arc of Soumitra Chatterjee’s remarkable life through Sanghamitra Chakraborty’s biography, “Soumitra Chatterjee and His World.” This event celebrates the book’s release with a fascinating conversation between Sanghamitra Chakraborty and Arundhati Ghosh.
The biography covers the complete arc of Chatterjee’s extraordinary life and captures the many facets of his talent as a creative artist and all-round icon of the Bengal cultural sphere.
With photographs capturing his personal and professional life and interviews with over 75 sources, including Sandip Ray, Shyam Benegal, Goutam Ghosh, Sharmila Tagore, Supriya Pathak, along with a number of film scholars and film directors, this is an essential book for legions of his fans, it introduces his legacy to a pan-India audience and a new generation of film lovers.
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Sanghamitra Chakraborty
In a career spanning thirty years, Sanghamitra Chakraborty has been the editor of India Today Group magazines Reader’s Digest, Prevention and Women’s Health, and worked at several other leading publications at the start of her career, including the Times of India, Outlook, the Statesman and Sunday, writing on cinema, gender, health and environment, apart from news reporting. She lives and works in New Delhi.
Arundhati Ghosh
Arundhati Ghosh is a cultural practitioner based in Bangalore, India. After spending seven years in the corporate sector, Arundhati joined India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) as its first fundraiser in 2001. After serving the Foundation for 22 years, with 10 years between 2013 and 2023 as its Executive Director, she left the Foundation in May 2023.
Arundhati sits on the advisory panel for The Museum of Art &Photography (MAP), Bangalore and is a Board Member of Sangama, Bangalore. Earlier, she has been a Trustee of Toto funds the Arts, and The Seagull Foundation for the Arts and an advisor for Blind with Camera.
She speaks on arts and philanthropy for leading Indian and international non-profit and cultural networks including On the Move, International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA), Festival Academy, Europe, UNESCO Berlin, The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), Kultura Nova Foundation, University of Leeds, Theatre Cooperative Turkey, among others. She also writes on arts and culture and these include Scroll, News 9, the Hindu, the Wire, Himal, Business Standard, Bengaluru Review among others.
