Of Times There Were Before – Film Screening

Of Times There Were Before is a portrait of Romila Thapar, one of the world's most influential historians and public intellectuals. At ninety-four, having lived through much of the making of modern India, she stands at an unusual distance from the past she has spent a lifetime studying. The film began with a simple question: who is the person behind the historian's name? Shot at her home in New Delhi, it is an…