Kasturi Basu

Kasturi Basu
Kasturi Basu is a social activist, science researcher, occasional writer and editor based in Kolkata. She is currently directing a documentary, S.D. [2018], on Saroj Dutta, martyred communist poet, journalist, and ideologue of the Naxalbari movement. She is a founder member of the People’s Film Collective, and editors of Pratirodher Cinema, a magazine on cinema and counterculture.
Kasturi Basu, Dwaipayan Banerjee
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Anand Chakravarti
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