Anees Jung (born 1944) is an Indian author, journalist and columnist for newspapers in India and abroad, whose most known work, ''Unveiling India'' (1987) was a chronicle of the lives of women in India, noted especially for the depiction of
Muslim
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women behind the
purdah
Pardah or purdah (from Hindi-Urdu , , meaning "curtain") is a religious and social practice of female seclusion prevalent among some Muslim and Hindu communities. It takes two forms: physical segregation of the sexes and the requirement that wom ...
.
Early life and education
Born in
Rourkela
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,
and growing up in Hyderabad,
Anees Jung is from an aristocratic family – her father, Nawab Hosh Yar Jung, was a scholar and poet, and served as the ''musahib'' (adviser) to the last
Nizam
The Nizams were the rulers of Hyderabad from the 18th through the 20th century. Nizam of Hyderabad (Niẓām ul-Mulk, also known as Asaf Jah) was the title of the monarch of the Hyderabad State ( divided between the state of Telangana, Mar ...
(prince) of
Hyderabad State
Hyderabad State () was a princely state located in the south-central Deccan region of India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and t ...
.
[Anees Jung]
Penguin
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India. Her mother and brother are also
Urdu
Urdu (;["Urdu"](_blank)
''Osmania University
Osmania University is a collegiate public state university located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Mir Osman Ali Khan, the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad in 1918 , He released a farman to establish OSMANIA UNIVERSITY on the day of 28 August 1918. It ...
in Hyderabad, she went to the United States for higher studies at University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
Ann Arbor
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, where she did her master's degree in sociology and American studies.
Career
She started her career in writing with the ''Youth Times'', a Times of India
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publication, where she worked as a journalist and editor (1973 to 1980). She has subsequently worked for ''The Christian Science Monitor
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'' and the ''International Herald Tribune
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''.Anees Jung
writersfestival.org Anees Jung lives in Delhi.[
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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.
Others are maltreated by alcoholic fathers or married off early or sexually abused,[Mishty Varma,
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