Shayoni Mehta is freelance writer and photographer. An Erasmus Mundus Fellow, she has taught Sociology at University of Pune and Symbiosis (Liberal Arts and Law). Her writing and photography has appeared in PARI, Indian Express, Telegraph and DNA. She teaches sociology online to fund her initiative The Social Lockdown, which helps distribute rations to the lockdown victims. You can follow her on Instagram @shayo_ni and on Twitter: @inoyash.
In a film industry filled with mainstream Indian stereotypes—Hindi speaking, upper-class, ‘mainland’ Indians, that eat Butter Chicken—the pungent-smelling entrance of Axone about a community of Northeasteners in New Delhi feels like a true act of resistance - Review by Shayoni Mehta.