EDITORIAL BOARDEXECUTIVE EDITORS CONTENTS Geeta Kapur Kumkuin $angari Indira Chandraseknar Madan Copal SinjE^h Introduction A$hlsh Rajadhyak^ha Ashish Raiadhwksha MANAGERIAL EDITORS Vivan Sujrtdafam Rajendra Prasad Romi Kho$la 7 Satyajit Ray, Ray's Films, and Ray-Movie Ashish Raiadhvaksha ADVISORY EDITORS G.P, Deshpartde Kalpana Sahni Asad Zaidi 17 Cultural Creativity in the First Decade: Anuradha Kapur The Example of Satyajit Ray Anil Bhatti Chanchal Chauhan Geeta Kapur Sashi Kumar CONTRIBUTING BOITORS Malini Bhattacharya Neela Bhagwat 51 Shifting Codes, Dissolving Identities: The Hindi Social Film of the 1950s as Saeed Akhtar Mirza Mihir Bhattecharya Popular Culture M.S. Sathyu Ravi Vasudevan Sudhir Patwardhan P, Govinda Pillai M,S. Prabhakara Anm Khopkar 85 The Representation of Gods and Heroes: Farsi Mythological Drama of the Early Twentieth Century SUBSCRIPTION RATES Anuradha Kapur Individual (4 issues): Rs 40 Institutions (4 issues); Rs 100 WRITE TO Indira Chandrasekhar journal ofArts&^dea$ C-20 Qutab Institutional Area New Delhi 110 016 Tel.: 686 2924 PUBLISHED BY Tulika Print Communication Service^ to G.P^ Deshpande PRINTED AT Pauls Press New Delhi ^ARTS^DEASNUMBERS 23-24 Tanuarv 1993