Lecture

Manishita Dass (Royal Holloway, University of London)

The talk explores some of the methodological challenges and insights that Dass has encountered and gained, respectively, while working on Left Luggage, her book-in-progress about the cinematic legacies of the vibrant left cultural movement spearheaded in the 1940s by the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA), the cultural wing of the Communist Party of India.