Despite a career affected by his troubles with alcoholism, Ritwik Ghatak was one of India’s most obviously talented filmmakers, wrote Malcolm in our Summer 1982 issue.
'Ladies and gentlemen, let us discover more of that which is impossible and then do it. Let us find new summits to conquer. Let us bring down the barriers that have blinded our view of the horizons.'
Durbar, a project started to protect sex workers in 1992, by being physically and spatially rooted in the Sonagachi brothel space, is a movement where the gaze is that of an insider, and a testament to lived realities.