Background: A film society activist and a film historian who has worked as a freelance film critic for many years. He regularly lectures and writes on cinema.

Academic qualification: Recipient of Senior Fellowship from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India; fellow of the prestigious Salzburg Seminar (Austria); recipient of research fellowship from the Indian Foundation for the Arts and another fellowship from SARAI-CSDS.

Teaching experience : Academic coordinator, Chitrabani Mass Communication Centre under St. Xavier’s College; visiting faculty to Film Studies Department, Calcutta University and Jadavpur University for several years; project co-ordinator at Seagull Foundation for the Arts.