Kusumita Rakshit has been a student of fine arts and photography at the Berkeley Art Studio, University of California, Berkeley. She holds degrees in economics and business management and taught graphic designing and digital editing at Biju Pattanaik Film and Television Institute, India. Her interests lie in the exploration of the political and sociological ramifications of visual arts including, but not limited to, films.

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Performativity and Politics: Ray and Ghatak

Satyajit Ray, in his characteristic swagger, put it down to the puerile nature of his native Bengali audience and the ‘backward, stupid and trashy’ quality of contemporaneous work in the Bengali film industry.

Sex And The Second Sex In Anurag Kashyap’s World Of Films

Anurag Kashyap’s sketch of his woman is his stimulus, the starting point. What unfolds unto us is a flesh-and-blood character.