Anees Jung

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{{Infobox person
| name =Anees Jung
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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1944}}
| birth_place = [[Rourkela]], [[Odisha]], India
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| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]
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| known_for = ''Unveiling India'' (1987)
|alma_mater = [[University of Michigan]]
| occupation = [[Writer]], [[journalist]], [[columnist]]
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'''Anees Jung''' (born 1944)<ref name="flamingo">{{cite book |author1=Anees Jung |title=Flamingo - Textbook in English for Class XII |date=2007 |publisher=[[National Council of Educational Research and Training|NCERT]] |location=New Delhi |isbn=81-7450-650-0 |page=13 |url=http://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/lefl102.pdf |accessdate=6 November 2019 |language=en |format=PDF |chapter=Lost Spring |quote=Anees Jung (1964) was born in Rourkela and spent her childhood and adolescence in Hyderabad.}}</ref> is an Indian author, journalist and columnist for newspapers in India and abroad,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/01/27/stories/2004012710670300.htm|title=Indian women lack freedom: Anees Jung|date=27 January 2004|work=The Hindu|access-date=26 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070915133519/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/01/27/stories/2004012710670300.htm|archive-date=15 September 2007|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> 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]].<ref name="tr">{{cite news|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040427/cth2.htm#7|title=Highlighting problems of women, youth|author=Parbina Rashid|date=27 April 2004|work=The Tribune}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Born in [[Rourkela]],<ref>''Unveiling Bharat'', Penguin Books, 1987. {{ISBN|0-14-010344-9}}, p. 1.</ref> 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]].<ref name=pg>[http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/Authors/Anees_Jung.aspx Anees Jung] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100927002202/http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/Authors/Anees_Jung.aspx |date=27 September 2010 }} [[Penguin Books|Penguin]] India.</ref> Her mother and brother are also [[Urdu]] poets.<ref>[http://www.oxfordbookstore.com/dotcom/oxford/archives/oxford_bookstore_review/talk_shop/anees_jung.htm Anees Jung] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100622001629/http://www.oxfordbookstore.com/dotcom/oxford/archives/oxford_bookstore_review/talk_shop/anees_jung.htm |date=22 June 2010 }} [[Oxford Bookstore and Stationery Company|Oxford Bookstore]].
</ref> After schooling and college at [[Osmania University]] in Hyderabad, she went to the United States for higher studies at [[University of Michigan]] [[Ann Arbor, Michigan|Ann Arbor]], where she did her master's degree in sociology and American studies.<ref>''Seven Sisters: among the women of South Asia''. Penguin Books, 1994, p. i.</ref>

==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]]''.<ref>[http://www.writersfestival.org/archives/bios/jung.html Anees Jung] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100727091634/http://www.writersfestival.org/archives/bios/jung.html |date=27 July 2010 }} writersfestival.org</ref> Anees Jung lives in Delhi.<ref name=pg/>

===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.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}

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]].{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} Others are maltreated by alcoholic fathers or married off early or sexually abused,<ref name=ht>Mishty Varma, [https://archive.is/20130208084559/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Jung-exposes-national-shame/Article1-41452.aspx "Jung exposes national shame"], ''Hindustan Times'', 1 January 2001.</ref> 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<ref name=flamingo/> Jung is noted for her lively and vivid descriptions.<ref name=ht/>

Other books by Jung include ''When a Place Becomes a Person'' (1977) and ''The Song of India (1990).{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}

==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}}.

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