February 3, 2022
Durba Mitra's essay, "'Mississippi Masala' @30: Revisiting a Film Classic in Authoritarian Times," has been published in the online magazine Public Books. In the piece, Professor Mitra explores how Mira Nair's film, Mississppi Masala, reflected the South Asian diaspora in the United States and how, thirty years later, it still manages to reflect the contemporary political landscape.
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