Chandak Sengoopta is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He has several research interests, ranging from the history of European medicine and the history of gender and sexuality to the cultural history of modern India. He is currently writing a study of the local, national and international contexts that shaped the career of the film-maker and writer Satyajit Ray (1921-1992). Sengoopta can be reached by email at sengoopta@gmail.com