Sangeeta Datta is a writer/director, independent filmmaker and cultural commentator. She is director of Baithak – a non-profit arts company – and Stormglass Productions. Trained and published in Tagore music, Datta has been a research fellow at the University of Sussex and SOAS, UK, and is the co-author, with Kaustav Bakshi and Rohit K. Dasgupta, of Rituparno Ghosh: Cinema, Gender and Art, (2015). Her critically acclaimed work includes the award-winning feature film adaptation of King Lear, Life Goes On (2009), the stage productions The Dying Song (2008) and Gitanjali 100 (2013-14), and the documentary, Bird of Dusk (2018).