Greenwich Village is a long way from the brothel in Calcutta where Avijit Halder was raised, and while the 19-year-old just began his freshman year of studying film at New York University’s Tisch ...

Born into a brothel in the Indian city of Calcutta, Avijit Halder's life has undergone a dramatic transformation. The 20-year-old is currently pursuing a degree at one of the top film schools in the ...

Born Into Brothels child actor set to debut in Hollywood as an assistant director Avijit Halder, who was one of the protagonists in Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman’s Oscar-winning documentary film Born ...

Of all the kids in this year's freshman class at NYU, it's probably safe to say that Avijit Halder is the only one who's the son of a drug addict and Calcutta prostitute who was burned to death. At ...

Avijit Halder’s journey started when he caught public attention with the photographs he took for the documentary — snippets of life in Sonagachhi, his own house. would I? I see no reason. It’s my home ...

And in its synopsis of Born into Brothels, the movie website makes special mention of one of the title characters-Avijit Halder, who at the time was ‘a rotund, serious 11-year-old of immense talent,’ ...

Having opened after an entire year’s delay even as the COVID-19 pandemic entered its third year, the fifth iteration of MoMA PS1’s signature major survey of art in New York City, titled “Greater New ...