purush-rani

In Chapal Rani, Sandip Roy Brings Back Bengal's Last Jatra Queen From Archival Silence

In his riveting biography of Chapal Bhaduri, the last great ‘purush-rani’ of Bengali jatra, Sandip Roy constructs an urgent archive of a life lived at the triple margins of queerness, performance, and erasure, before memory itself dissolves forever.