This is the first comprehensive attempt to portray the life of the actor in all its facets. It traces Soumitra's initial years of searching for identities to the final decades when he reached the pinnacle of his career as an actor and an artist.
The second part of the book contains two poignant first-person accounts of working among the CICL by Kalpana Purushothaman, a trained... Læs mere
She faced incredible opposition to her work when people attacked her not just with words but even with stones and dung. But nothing could... Læs mere
tracing his poetic arc from the deeply personal to the political, from chronicles of private joys, sorrows and everyday epiphanies to the poetry of witness that gazes unflinchingly at the realities that haunt the Northeast, his native land.
On the broader canvas of India, other events are playing out. Indira Gandhi declares an Emergency; a new party, the Jana Sangh is formed.