About ANAMIKABANDOPADHYAY.COM

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.

She founded MeeLab, a critical media and climate education lab committed to advancing media literacy, climate justice, and youth civic engagement through research, workshops, and grassroots storytelling. 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. 

Ana Raaven has taught Cinema, Media Studies, and Cultural Studies across universities in the U.S. 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 engagement with Aboriginal cultures and close associations with these communities profoundly transformed her worldview — both in life and 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 Basudha.