Mira Sethi
Mira Sethi
Mira Sethi is a Pakistani actress and writer. The daughter of journalists Najam Sethi and Jugnu Mohsin, Sethi attended Lahore Grammar School and Cheltenham Ladies' College. She graduated from Wellesley College 2010 and spent her junior year at the University of Oxford. At Wellesley, she studied English and South Asian studies, and she was the student speaker at her commencement ceremony, becoming
"It means huffing in Urdu as I climb a steep hill in San Francisco; eating slow-cooked beef shank from the Pakistani restaurant down the road on a cold misty day. But it also means parachuting into my husbands community, his life, his friends — speaking relentlessly in English, communicating the clutter of my inner life in a language that houses my intellect more than my heart."
"To be a woman in Pakistan is to encounter this question and its subtext everywhere we go. It is to encounter the cultural assumption that sexual assault can be prevented by dressing and behaving modestly, no matter that CCTV footage of busy streets in Pakistani cities routinely shows women in burqas being harassed."
