The Cultural Wing of Students Life Committee (SLC) celebrated Satyajit Ray’s Centenary Birth Anniversary on 10 May.  The event was inaugurated by Dr. Tapan Kumar Sau, SLC Chair. This was followed by talks by Sri. Ujjal Chakraborty on Ray’s People: Who were they? Where did they come from? and another talk by  Dr. Sushmita Banerjee on 100 years of Satyajit Ray and Cinema Modernity. The session concluded with a vote of thanks by  the Cultural Council students representative. The event was celebrated online through Microsoft Teams.

Sri Ujjal Chakraborty is an author, artist, teacher, researcher as well as an internationally recognized Satyajit Ray Scholar. He has authored more than 10 books including The Director’s Mind which won him a National Award in 2010. He has also authored four historical novels on colonialism in India and is a faculty member of the Department of Animation of an Indo-Italian Film Institute in Kolkata.

Prof. Sushmita Banerjee is an Assistant Professor at the Research Centre for Human Sciences, IIIT Hyderabad. She has an M.Phil in Literary Studies, EFLU Hyderabad and a Ph.D in Film Studies from the  Department of Cinematic Arts, University of Iowa. Her primary work is on the cinema of Ritwik Ghatak. She is interested in critical theories of film and literature, partition and trauma studies, Indian cinema, and contemporary US film. She has published in Deep Focus, Mediapolis and South Asian Popular Culture.