Dr Shoma A Chatterji, Lifetime Achievement SAMMAN awardee from Rotary Metro City in 2012, is a freelance journalist, film scholar and an author who has been writing for forty years now. She has been on the jury at major film festivals and has presented papers at different conferences around the world. She has also authored 26 books on various themes of Indian Cinema, Gender Studies, Short Story collections and others. Currently, she lives in Kolkata with her husband.