Anjali & Jayasankar, Author at FemAsia Magazine

Anjali & Jayasankar

Anjali Monteiro and KP Jayasankar are retired Professors from the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. They are award-winning documentary filmmakers and authors, with 33 awards for their films and a national award for their book, A Fly in the Curry: Independent Documentary Film in India. More details on their website http://www.monteiro-jayasankar.com/ email them at contact@monteiro-jayasankar.com

Politics & Culture

Learning from Pastoral Lifeworlds

Like this, like that Like Here, like there Friend, enemy Life, death All the same All is he… – Shah Abdul Latif (1689-1752) For millennia, movement has been central to the existence of human communities across the world. The nomad’s

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Empowerment

Whose Stories- Reflections On Our Documentary Film ‘Naata’

Documentary films are invariably about ‘them’ made by ‘us’ for consumption by ‘us’. The subjects of these films tend to be constructed as ‘less powerful others’, whose difference from ‘us’ make us appear as ‘normal’. Audiences generally use these

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Politics & Culture

Changing The Script

When Dylan sang The Times They are a Changin’ in 1964, a clarion call to generations of rebellious young people, he (and we) would have never imagined just how prophetic his words were. If there is anything constant in our contemporary mediascapes,

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Anjali & Jayasankar

Learning from Pastoral Lifeworlds

Whose Stories- Reflections On Our Documentary Film ‘Naata’

Changing The Script