August 2025
Stepping into this new editorial role at Ananke during a month that carries so much historical and emotional weight across South Asia is not lost on me. August is often remembered as a time of rupture, resistance, and renewal. This month also marks many nations’ struggles for independence from colonial rule. In many ways, this moment feels like a quiet act of creative independence too: a deepening of my own commitment to feminist media and collective storytelling.
My journey with Ananke has been one of both building and unlearning, first as Director of Operations and now as Editor. It has meant listening closely to the silences, holding space for nuance, and collaborating with incredible voices that defy borders, binaries, and erasure.
This platform has always stood for something larger than itself. It exists to challenge dominant structures in media and publishing; to center stories that are deliberately sidelined; and to ask: whose voices shape our realities, and whose are systematically left out?
As editor, I hold those questions close. And I invite more.
We will continue to publish with care and courage, foregrounding issues around gender, justice, climate, care, technology, and beyond, all viewed through an intersectional lens. We will remain committed to nurturing regional and cross-regional solidarity across the Global South. And we will keep creating opportunities for mentorship, collaboration, and narrative sovereignty, especially for those who are too often spoken about but rarely spoken with.
I am grateful to Sabin Muzaffar and the entire Ananke community for the trust placed in me. This is not a new chapter. It is a continuation of a shared journey. One that insists on representation, radical tenderness, and the audacity to imagine otherwise.
With gratitude and solidarity,
Namrata
Editor, Ananke
