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...Most Indian movies are commercial staples churned out by Bollywood. But Sen's more rarefied sensibilities were formed in Calcutta where she grew up in an environment that hailed intellectual moviemaking. Her father, the director Chidananda Dasgupta, was best friends with legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray, and Sen was soon drawn into their world. At 11, she played the part of a little boy in a play written by Ray's father, and she decided then to become an actress: "I'd never enjoyed anything as much." She has since acted in more than 60 films, including Ray's Teen Kanya...
...best Indian films in Toronto explored the pain of girls growing up: one escaping her awful destiny, another finding her troubled heritage. Buddhadeb Dasgupta's A Tale of a Naughty Girl is set in rural Bengal in 1969, the summer of the moon landing, but the feudal culture it defines could be today's?or that of hundreds of years ago. Lati, a pretty 14-year-old, hopes to slip out of an arranged marriage with an old goat, thinking it the worst of all possible worlds, while village women in the sex trade speak of their jobs with...
Problems emerged again in November 2001, when Anne M. Fernandez ’03, who was the council treasurer at the time and who had been planning a presidential bid with then-council Finance Committee Chair Trisha S. Dasgupta ’03, decided instead to run for vice president alongside then-council Vice President Sujean...
Trisha S. Dasgupta ’03, who drafted the report on Loker Commons, also said she believes the administration will likely be receptive to changes in Loker...
...Dasgupta said Fernandez backed out of an arrangement they had made to run together...