Beyond Engineering and Medicine, there are many other wonderful career options that would allow students to experience success, said Puja Aparna Kolluru, a young documentary filmmaker from the city.
Addressing a gathering at Tagore Memorial Library as part of a ‘Human Library’ session, Ms. Kolluru shared her experience of capturing inspiring facets of the life of an American biologist , in her first project which she called “A Woman who Climbs Trees”.
Speaking about the rare opportunity to make a documentary film on Margaret D. Lowman, popular as ‘Canopy Meg’, Ms. Kolluru said she was an American biologist, educator, ecologist, writer and explorer whose expertise involves canopy ecology, canopy plant-insect relationship and constructing canopy walkways.
Equal opportunities
Narrating with great excitement her visit to the Amazon rainforest in Peru brimming with creatures known to attack in self-defence, she said her graduation in Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota (Florida) in the US gave her a great deal of exposure.
“Today I am here because of my upbringing. My parents raised me without any discrimination allowing me to follow my passion and let me do what I enjoyed doing,” she said, adding that if given a platform, girls like her would shine in any given field. She appealed to parents not to discriminate against their girl children and give them equal opportunities.
Currently, she said, she was trying to capture the travails of handloom workers of Pedana in Krishna district in the form of a documentary film, “Just like agriculture, the handloom sector is also in a shambles. Middlemen have wreaked havoc in the lives of poor artisans, some of who are on the verge of suicides,” she said.
