GUWAHATI, May 17 � Bobbeeta Sharma has taken over as the chairperson of the Indian Women Network (NER) from Jahnabi Phookan, while Aneeta Dutta is the new co-chairwoman for IWN NER for the year 2015-16, stated a press release.
Film and media personality and entrepreneur, Sharma is the proprietor of Sangita Advertising, a leading TV production house of Assam. She has also been serving as the honorary chairperson of the Assam State Film Finance and Development Corporation Ltd, and during her tenure the corporation established the first film archive and museum in Assam.
From 1992 to 2002, Sharma was teaching as a lecturer in History in Pandu College. Sharma has recently authored a book The Moving Image and Assamese Culture � Joymoti, Jyotiprasad Agarwala and Assamese Cinema published by the Oxford University Press.