What does Satyajit Ray’s Mahanagar tell us about Bengal’s politics of prejudice?
Fourteen years after West Bengal’s chief minister dismissed a Park Street rape as a conspiracy, a look at how the 1963 film anticipated the machinery of prejudice that still operates today.
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