Professor Shareen Joshi and the India Initiative hosted a film screening of The World Before Her, a 2012 documentary film about the lives of young women in India. The film tells parallel stories of two girls: a small town girl who travels to Mumbai to train to become Miss India and a second girl who is training with Durga Vahini, the women's wing of the Vishva Hindu Parishad.
Shareen Joshi is an assistant professor in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and a member of the India Initiative faculty committee.