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Monojit Lahiri

Monojit Lahiri is a Kolkata-based communication practitioner specialising in Cinema, Advertising & Popular culture. He has journeyed this space for over 4 decades.He consciously invests his material with doses of entertainment, engagement and relevance, and has zero interest in changing the world! 
 

 

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