Anees Jung

Anees Jung (born 1944)[1] is an Indian author, journalist and columnist for newspapers in India and abroad,[2] whose most known work, Unveiling India (1987) was a chronicle of the lives of women in India, noted especially for the depiction of Muslim women behind the purdah.[3]

Anees Jung
Born1964 (age 56–57)
Rourkela, Odisha, India
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
OccupationWriter, journalist, columnist
Known forUnveiling India (1987)

Early life and education

Born in Rourkela,[4] Anees Jung hails from an aristocratic family in Hyderabad – her father, Nawab Hosh Yar Jung, was a renowned scholar and poet, and served as the musahib (adviser) to the last Nizam (prince) of Hyderabad State.[5] Her mother and brother are also Urdu poets.[6] After schooling and college at Osmania University in Hyderabad, she went to the United States for higher studies at University of Michigan Ann Arbor, where she did her master's degree in sociology and American studies.[7]

Career

She started her career in writing with the Youth Times, a Times of India publication, where she worked as a journalist and editor (1976 to 1979). She has subsequently worked for The Christian Science Monitor and International Herald Tribune.[8] Anees Jung lives in Delhi.[5]

Books

Jung published Unveiling India in 1987. It is a travel diary focusing on interviews with women. She has written several subsequent books on the same, talking to women about their everyday lives, including Night of the New Moon: Encounters with Muslim women in India (1993), Seven Sisters (1994). Breaking the Silence (1997) is based on conversations on women's lives from around the world. Beyond the Courtyard (2003) is based on interviews with the daughters of the women she had talked to first in Unveiling India, and many of the horrifying tales continue.

Jung's Lost Spring: Stories of stolen childhood (2005) focuses on children from deprived backgrounds, and includes the story of Idrees, a child who is kidnapped and forced to work in the carpet industry in Mirzapur. Others are maltreated by alcoholic fathers or married off early or sexually abused,[9] though some find refuge in schools set up by well-meaning NGOs. A section of this book is part of the i English curriculum in many Indian schools[1] Jung is noted for her lively and vivid descriptions.[9]

Other books by Jung include When a Place Becomes a Person (1977) and The Song of India (1990).

Bibliography
  • When a Place Becomes a Person. Vikas Pub. House, 1977. ISBN 0-7069-0526-1
  • Flashpoints: Poems in Prose. Tarang Paperbacks, 1981. ISBN 0-7069-1440-6.
  • Unveiling India, Penguin Books, 1987. ISBN 0-14-010344-9.
  • The Song of India. Himalayan Books, 1990. ISBN 81-7002-055-7
  • Night of the New Moon: Encounters with Muslim Women in India. Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-14-023405-5
  • Seven Sisters: Among the Women of South Asia. Penguin Books, 1994
  • Breaking the Silence: Voices of Women from Around the World. Penguin Books, 1997. ISBN 92-3-103374-3
  • Olives from Jericho: Peace in Winter Gardens. UNESCO, 1999. ISBN 92-3-103642-4.
  • Beyond the Courtyard: a Sequel to Unveiling India. Viking, 2003
  • Lost Spring: Stories of Stolen Childhood. Penguin Books, 2005. ISBN 0-14-400016-4.

References
  1. Anees Jung (2007). "Lost Spring". Flamingo - Textbook in English for Class XII (PDF). New Delhi: NCERT. p. 13. ISBN 81-7450-650-0. Retrieved 6 November 2019. Anees Jung (1964) was born in Rourkela and spent her childhood and adolescence in Hyderabad.
  2. "Indian women lack freedom: Anees Jung". The Hindu. 27 January 2004. Archived from the original on 15 September 2007. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
  3. Parbina Rashid (27 April 2004). "Highlighting problems of women, youth". The Tribune.
  4. Unveiling Bharat, Penguin Books, 1987. ISBN 0-14-010344-9, p. 1.
  5. Anees Jung Archived 27 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine Penguin India.
  6. Anees Jung Archived 22 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine Oxford Bookstore.
  7. Seven Sisters: among the women of South Asia. Penguin Books, 1994, p. i.
  8. Anees Jung Archived 27 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine writersfestival.org
  9. Mishty Varma, "Jung exposes national shame", Hindustan Times, 1 January 2001.
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