This is an edited version of a piece I wrote over three years ago, when we, as an extended family, decided to remember my mother’s 100th birt ...
Anjali Monteiro
Anjali Monteiro is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, media researcher and teacher. She has recently retired as a Professor and Dean of the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. More about her work at www.monteiro-jayasankar.com
In March 2022, my friend Chandita Mukherjee sent me this photograph taken 45 years ago. Two bright-eyed young women in their twenties, sitting ...
I had no idea what trigeminal neuralgia was, until it hit me two and a half years ago. It started with sensitivity on my left cheek, whi ...
December 28, 2020, was the 68th wedding anniversary of my beloved parents, Sofia and Inocencio. My earliest memories of my parents are of my fa ...
School As Space For Affirming Cultures of Gender Justice The #MeToo campaign, with its “naming and shaming” of several prominent and not ...
The First Woman Graduate In My Family In the grand narratives of empowerment, the micro struggles often fall by the way, remaining undocumented ...