About ANAMIKABANDOPADHYAY.COM
Her-Story
Ana Raaven, also known as Anamika Basudha (formerly Anamika Bandopadhyay), is a media scholar, filmmaker, published author, poet, policy researcher and educator whose work sits at the intersection of media policy, climate literacy, and decolonial storytelling in the age of Post-Truth and the Anthropocene.
Ana is also the founder of the South Asian Press of America, a publishing imprint dedicated to reviving banned, forgotten, and radical South Asian voices — from archival classics to contemporary resistance literature. She further leads the South Praxis Institute, a research and pedagogy platform focused on postcolonial critique and policy transformation in and for the Global South.
She met Michelangelo Antonioni at a very young age — an encounter that changed her life. Soon after, she was initiated into cinema through the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and Jean-Luc Godard.
Her engagement with Aboriginal cultures and close associations with these communities profoundly transformed her worldview — both in life and in cinema.