Songs Of Sanity

About the author:

Adwaita Das was born in 1984 in Calcutta. She graduated in English from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, and went on to obtain a post graduate diploma in Film Direction from Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. While in college, she started a theatre group called Stage-Addict which mainly performed original plays in English. She won the Shyamanand Jalan National Youth Theatre Award in 2013 for her trilingual play Chhayankaner Jonyo (Shadowplay). Her book of poems, 27 Stitches, was published in 2014 by Writers Workshop, India, and her novella with collected short stories titled Colours of Shadow was launched in 2015 by LiFi Publications. Her short films have travelled around the nation and across foreign waters, winning hearts and some awards. Karan Kolkata Ebang Anya Galpa (‘Cause Calcutta and Other Stories) is her directorial debut feature film, for the love of Kolkata, of course, and her grandparents, who by now must have been reborn and could be kids watching this movie after all.