In 2019, when fire was raging against the backdrop of anti- and pro-CAA protests all over the country, Ritwik Ghatak, who died in 1976, was still alive. He was alive in his principle, alive in his outrage, alive in the dream of cinema as witness. Today, as we mark the birth centenary of Ritwik Ghatak, one of Indian cinema's holy trinity, the sky above still seems darker. The world still clouded by displacement, identity crisis and political fracture, the themes master chronicler of the Partition Ghatak portrayed beautifully with ease. Yet the star, Ritwik Ghatak, continues to shine.

Today, November 4, is Ritwik Ghatak's 100th birthday. Ghatak was born in Dhaka in undivided India in 1925.

Ritwik Ghatak themes, though unsettlingly so, remain relevant and connected to our times, whether it'

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