Parichay Patra is an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences and a member of the Digital Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Platform, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. He received his doctoral degree in Film & Screen Studies from Monash University, Australia, in 2016, for his dissertation on the transnational associations of the Indian New Wave of the 1970s. Patra served as an assistant professor at the Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani Goa Campus (7/2017-5/2019) and as a visiting researcher at Instituto Investigciones Gino Germani, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, in June 2018. His research interests include Global South Cinemas, Transnational Cinema, histories and aesthetics of Indian and other New Waves in the long 1960s.