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Amitava Nag is an independent film scholar and critic. He has been writing extensively on cinema for the last nineteen years in The Hindu, The Wire, News18.com, Outlook, CNN IBNLive, The Statesman, Deep Focus and Himal Southasian, to name a few. He has also been writing and editing the film magazine, Silhouette, for seventeen years. Nag has authored books on cinema, including Beyond Apu: 20 Favourite Film Roles of Soumitra Chatterjee and Reading the Silhouette: Collection of Writings on Selected Indian Films. He also writes poetry and short fiction both in Bengali and English. His first collection of short stories in English and Bengali are Radha and Atma Abamanana Bishayak Ek-Dui Katha, respectively, apart from a collection of poetry, Kichhuta Sindur Bakita Golap. He lives in Kolkata.