Anees Jung

Anees Jung attended Osmania University in Hyderabad and later the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, where she earned her master’s in sociology and American studies. She started her writing career with the “Youth Times,” a Times of India publication, working as a journalist and editor. She subsequently worked for the Christian Science Monitor and International Herald Tribune. Her biggest success, Unveiling India, a travel diary focusing on interviews of Indian women discussing their everyday lives, was published in 1987. Since then, she has written several books including Night of the New Moon: Encounters with Muslim women in India (1993), Seven Sisters (1994), Breaking the Silence (1997), and Beyond the Courtyard (2003), based on interviews with the daughters of the women she had talked to first in Unveiling India. Her book Lost Spring: Stories of stolen childhood (2005) focuses on children from deprived backgrounds. Some of her other books include When a place becomes a person (1977) and The Song of India (1990).