Trina Nileena Banerjee, erstwhile actor and currently a faculty member at CSSS Calcutta, joins us to discuss about the history of the theatre movement in Bengal. Within the said context, we double click on the gender politics of the movement to understand how the aesthetic representations of women on stage were often at odds with their role as cultural activists in the movement.

Trina's homepage: https://www.cssscal.org/faculty_trina_nileena_banerjee.php

Review of Trina's book: When Silence speaks https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/2/book-reviews/when-silence-speaks.html