About ANAMIKABANDOPADHYAY.COM

Ana Raaven, also known as Anamika Vasudha (formerly Anamika Bandopadhyay), is a media scholar, filmmaker, published author, poet, policy researcher, and educator whose work bridges critical media studies, ecological thought, pedagogy, and policy research.

She founded MeeLab, an independent research and education institute committed to advancing media and climate justice through critical policy analysis, community-centered research, and public education—combating misinformation, digital propaganda, and environmental mythmaking in the Anthropocene and post-truth age.

She is also an active participant in various civil rights movements and organizations across the United States. Ana is 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.

Ana Raaven has taught Cinema, Media Studies, and Cultural Studies at universities in the United States and India, grounding her pedagogy in transnational analysis, political memory, and critical media practice.

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 films are extensions and artistic expressions of this research.

Her engagement with Aboriginal cultures and close associations with these communities have profoundly transformed her worldview—in life, in cinema, and in art.

As a committed Ambedkarite, Ana has publicly dropped her Brahminical last name in a conscious act of caste refusal. She now writes under names that reflect her politics—Ana Raaven and Anamika Vasudha.

She is based in the United States and remains an active participant in civil rights and social justice movements across the country.