'''1938: Key Events'''

* The Haripura Congress is marked by ideological rifts between the Right and the Left factions of Congress; it also exhibits Nandalal Bose’s famous Haripura posters, showing India’s working people and evoking Pat figurations and reliefs from Bengal’s terracotta temples. 

* The modernist sculptor Ram Kinker Baij makes his monumental Santhal Family cement sculpture at Shantiniketan. 

* [[K. M. Munshi]] starts the Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan. 

* Short-wave radio broadcasts are introduced. 

* Veer Savarkar becomes president of the Hindu Mahasabha.

* [[Duniya Na Mane]] is shown in Venice; none of the four Indian films shown in Venice in the 30s were bought for Western distribution. 

* [[Bombay Talkies]] makes what is probably the first officially commissioned advertising film, on Lever’s Dalda cooking oil, for the Lintas advertising agency (although [[Niranjan Pal]] is supposed to have made some ads in the early 30s). 

* The South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce and the Indian Motion Picture Distributors’ Association (IMPDA) are set up. 

* The silver jubilee of the Indian film industry (usually dated from [[Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra]]) is celebrated with ‘official’ versions of India’s film history. 

* The first Malayalam sound feature: Balan. T

* The Indian Screen Gazette is started by [[Wadia Movietone]], sponsored by the [[Film Advisory Board]]

* [[P. V. Pathy]] films a three-reeler on the Haripura Congress for the Gazette.