{"id":74541,"date":"2025-10-01T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/oct\/01\/women-behind-the-lens-ceciliaed-artist-indu-antony"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T06:00:03","slug":"women-behind-the-lens-i-thought-who-is-this-woman-i-need-to-know-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74541","title":{"rendered":"Women behind the lens: \u2018I thought, who is this woman? I need to know her\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian artist Indu Antony was mesmerised when she first saw 78-year-old Cecilia and has put her at the heart of a project that interrogates women\u2019s safety in public spaces and celebrates friendship<\/p>\n<p>I first encountered Cecilia a decade ago, as she was cycling through the streets of Bengaluru in India wearing a cape. I thought, who is this woman? I need to know her. She is 78 years old, and has become a dear friend of mine. She has always defied conventions of age, gender and femininity. In fact, when I was attacked on the street and wanted to speak out about gender violence, Cecilia was the first person I turned to.<\/p>\n<p>She has always dressed in bold and unconventional ways \u2013 often poking fun at my more restrained dress sense. Her style, humour and sheer presence bring a vibrancy that cannot be fabricated.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/oct\/01\/women-behind-the-lens-ceciliaed-artist-indu-antony\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian artist Indu Antony was mesmerised when she first saw 78-year-old Cecilia and has put her at the heart of a project that interrogates women\u2019s safety in public spaces and celebrates friendshipI first encountered Cecilia a decade ago, as she was cy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,71,59,62,92,440,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-design","category-culture","category-global-development","category-india","category-photography","category-sexual-violence","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74542,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74541\/revisions\/74542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}