Uma Chakravarti
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Uma Chakravarti is a feminist historian who has now also turned into a filmmaker. Her films relate to history, memory and the archive. Her first film “A Quiet Little Entry” explored women’s unlived lives during the national movement; her second film “Fragments of a Past” dwelt on a political activist who does not now remember her own past, and her third film “Ek Inquilab Aur Aaya: Lucknow 1920-1949” excavates memories to dwell on two women from Firanghi Mahal, a centre for rationalist Islamic learning in Lucknow. Sughra Fatema a poetess and her niece Khatija Ansari a student activist went to jail in 1949. Through their lives we see a moment of possibility for Muslim women at a time of great change.