2024 Uncollected collective Lectures: by Aneesha Grover

Aneesha's lecture delves into the complex terrain of postpartum depression, tracing its emotional, social, and cultural entanglements. She explores the web of connections that shape and surround this experience—myths, rituals, social representations, generational histories, and class dynamics—particularly as they affect women and mothers. Juxtaposed with the classical Indian dance-theatre tradition of Natyashastra and its concept of the Navarasa (the nine emotions), the lecture invites reflection on how embodied expressions of feeling intersect with lived realities of care, vulnerability, and transformation.