Rita Banerji
Rita Banerji was born and raised in 13 towns all over India. At 18 she moved to the United States and lived there for the next 11 years. She attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts and later George Washington University in Washington D.C. Her fields of study and work largely dealt with Conservation and the Environment and many of her projects had a gender focus. Though she loved her field and her work with the environment, writing had been an ambition of hers from the time she was a child, a career that her family had discouraged her from pursuing as they regarded it as unrealistic.
However at 30 Rita returned to India to pursue her writing. She began to write freelance and also discovered a passion for photography which she pursued simultaneously. Rita's writings and photographs have been published in magazines in the U.S., U.K., India, Nepal, Hong Kong and Australia. Rita is also the founder and chief administrator of The 50 Million Missing Campaign which fights female genocide in India.
However at 30 Rita returned to India to pursue her writing. She began to write freelance and also discovered a passion for photography which she pursued simultaneously. Rita's writings and photographs have been published in magazines in the U.S., U.K., India, Nepal, Hong Kong and Australia. Rita is also the founder and chief administrator of The 50 Million Missing Campaign which fights female genocide in India.
