A disclaimer: I first met V.T. Nayani more than a decade ago. She was a journalism school student who had shown up to a gathering I’d organized for the Toronto chapter of the South Asian Journalists Association. I still remember her shy smile and sparking eyes, and a slight hesitancy to stand out in that small group, as she expressed her interest in volunteering for upcoming events.
Soon after we first met – “16 years ago,” Nayani reminds me – she quickly figured out that the 24-hour news-cycle pace wasn’t the right fit. With a background in the classical dance Bharatnatyam and theatre, and having grown up on a steady diet of comedy, drama and coming-of-age stories, Nayani felt a pull toward narrative features., I can’t even count how many times,” she says, exploding into a fit of giggles before rhyming off other favourites.
Nayani wanted to tell a story about the friendship between a Tamil and an Indigenous woman. However, she knew it wasn’t just her story to tell. She came to know Jacobs –
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