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Tanushree Ghosh
Tanushree Ghosh is a Principal Correspondent at The Indian Express. She edits and produces Eye, the Sunday features supplement. She writes on culture and cinema — on the intersection of movies, society, politics, history. Her writing spans independent, regional, documentary, and South Asian cinema. She has written about films at award ceremonies (Oscars, Bafta, Emmy) and festivals. She reviews films and books and also writes on music, dance, art, folk art, photography, theatre, food, and philology. She has reported on the girl child, LGBTQIA+ community, and Bihar election. She is a take-no-prisoner proofreader who looks for the devil in the detail.
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