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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes| 15 December 1944}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Rourkela]], [[Odisha]]; India<br />
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| known_for = ''Unveiling India'' (1987)<br />
|alma_mater = [[University of Michigan]]<br />
| occupation = [[Writer]], [[journalist]], [[columnist]]<br />
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[[File:WIDE VIEW OF ROURKELA.JPG|thumb|[[Rourkela]], a city where Anees was born.]]<br />
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'''Anees Jung''' (born 15 December 1944) 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=usurped|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><br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Born in [[Rourkela]],<ref name="flamingo">{{cite book |author1=Anees Jung |url=http://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/lefl102.pdf |title=Flamingo - Textbook in English for Class XII |date=2007 |publisher=[[National Council of Educational Research and Training|NCERT]] |isbn=978-81-7450-650-4 |location=New Delhi |page=13 |language=en |chapter=Lost Spring |quote=Anees Jung (1944) was born in Rourkela and spent her childhood and adolescence in Hyderabad. |accessdate=6 November 2019}}</ref> and growing up in Hyderabad,<ref name="flamingo" /> Anees Jung is from an aristocratic family – her father, Nawab Hosh Yar Jung, was a 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]].<br />
</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><br />
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==Career==<br />
She started her career in writing with the ''Youth Times'', a [[Times of India]] publication, where she worked as a journalist and editor (1973 to 1980). She has subsequently worked for ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'' and the ''[[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/><br />
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===Books===<br />
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 <br />
''Night of the New Moon: Encounters with Muslim women in India'' (1993), <br />
''Seven Sisters'' (1994). ''Breaking the Silence'' (1997) is based on conversations on women's lives from around the world.<br />
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Others are maltreated by alcoholic fathers or married off early or sexually abused,<ref name=ht>Mishty Varma, <!--https://archive.today/20130208084559/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Jung-exposes-national-shame/Article1-41452.aspx dead link --> [https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/jung-exposes-national-shame/story-A3Bk3dW1nKnHlJ01rCntMK.html "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 [[NCERT]]'s, an academic publisher, Class 12 English Book in [[Central Board of Secondary Education|CBSE]] Schools <ref name=flamingo/> Jung is noted for her lively and vivid descriptions.<ref name=ht/><br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* ''When a Place Becomes a Person''. Vikas Pub. House, 1977. {{ISBN|0-7069-0526-1}}<br />
* ''Flashpoints: Poems in Prose''. Tarang Paperbacks, 1981. {{ISBN|0-7069-1440-6}}.<br />
* ''Unveiling India'', Penguin Books, 1987. {{ISBN|0-14-010344-9}}.<br />
* ''The Song of India''. Himalayan Books, 1990. {{ISBN|81-7002-055-7}}<br />
* ''Night of the New Moon: Encounters with Muslim Women in India''. Penguin Books, 1993. {{ISBN|0-14-023405-5}}<br />
* ''Seven Sisters: Among the Women of South Asia''. Penguin Books, 1994. {{ISBN|0-14-024579-0}}<br />
* ''Breaking the Silence: Voices of Women from Around the World''. Penguin Books, 1997. {{ISBN|92-3-103374-3}}<br />
* ''Olives from Jericho: Peace in Winter Gardens''. UNESCO, 1999. {{ISBN|92-3-103642-4}}.<br />
* ''Beyond the Courtyard: a Sequel to Unveiling India''. Viking, 2003<br />
* ''Lost Spring: Stories of Stolen Childhood''. Penguin Books, 2005. {{ISBN|0-14-400016-4}}.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of Indian writers]]<br />
* [[Indian literature]]<br />
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