Divya Cowasji stumbled into filmmaking. The Parsi-Irani-Indian director, photographer, and filmmaker was completing her master’s in media and cultural studies at Mumbai’s Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) when her own research opened up this unexpected career path.
"My doctoral thesis was on Parsi women and the exclusion they face in the community, and another friend of mine, was writing about her community coming to India during Partition [the 1947 decision to split the country...