April 16, 2025 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm ET
The Fung House
48 Professors Row
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Pramila (Esther Victoria Abraham) in costume, posing

Join us Wednesday, April 16, at 4 p.m. for a presentation about Indian Bollywood actress Pramila (Esther Victoria Abraham), her impact, and her legacy. This event will feature original research by Manjari Mukherjee.

Manjari is a CHAT fellow and the recipient of the AJS (Association for Jewish Studies) Scholar of Color Fellowship. A PhD candidate in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Tufts, she is completing her dissertation titled "Yahudi Ki Ladki (Daughter of a Jew): Jews on the Indian Stage and Screen from the 1920s to the 1950s." She is the co-convenor of the Performance in/from the Global South Working Group at the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) and co-founder of the Graduate Humanities Circle at Tufts. You can learn more about her work at manjarimukherjee.com.

We hope you can join us. For questions, contact humanities@tufts.edu.