“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” 

Albert Einstein

Ananya is a professional writer and a media researcher, with research areas in film studies, science fiction studies, Asian intercultural communication, and popular-visual culture. With an academic background in Communication Studies, Economics, and Cinema Studies, she has worked for 72 Dragons, Hong Kong SAR, a multimedia organization based in the global cinema research and creative production market. She has prior professional experience at Zee Media, and other digital content platforms like Youth Ki Awaaz and The Logical Indian. Her dissertation project on science fiction films by auteur filmmaker Christopher Nolan and their connection with existentialist philosophy of time and space, received the Special Jury Award from the Dr. Anamika Ray SHARE Communication Research Award 2024, an organization that encourages young media researchers in South Asia. 

She has presented an intercultural research study on the representation of Asian anthropomorphic symbols in Asian mythology and cinema at the 30th Asian Media Information and Communication Annual Conference 2024, held in Beijing, China. A research paper on narratives of climate change communication in climate fiction cinema was also presented at the International Association for Media and Communication Research Annual Conference 2025, held in Singapore. She has been offered scholarships from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and the People’s Film Collective, Kolkata for Film Studies-oriented courses. She is currently pursuing a PhD degree under Dr. Mriganka Madhukaillya in the Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.