they are both du graduates and while swara bhasker went on to do her masters from jnu her mother ira bhasker teaches cinema studies there and is a respected authority on all things academic about films over a chat about books and cinema they tell us about the influence these institutions have had on them and the importance of having an open debatefriendly college environmentshe is an actress in bollywood and her mother is a professor of cinema studies in jnu her mother ira bhasker is a graduate from du and now a jnu professor and swara bhasker studied at both the institutions she did her graduation in english literature from miranda house and her masters in sociology from jnu in a chat with dt at their jnu home the two talk about the influence that both these institutions have had on both of them their love for books and movies and how swara has learnt to be a fearless woman from her mother swara bhasker in my childhood home meant a place full of bookssince her mother used to teach english literature at gargi college when she was growing up home meant a place full of books for swara she shares if you ask me about the most abiding visual from my childhood then that is books we always had a house that was full of books when i would visit other peoples houses i used to come back and say they dont have any books and i found that very abnormal i grew up around books and my parents encouraged me to read i read sons and lovers by dh lawrence when i was 14 and my mother used to teach it to her literature students i would always look up to her standard she had great disdain for popular fiction so as a i kid i was like mills boons kaun padhta hai hum toh lawrence padhte hain we used to go for a lot of hindi films because she liked watching them when i was in college i would ask her to teach me the novels that i found difficult a bunch of us would get together for a class and i used to be her worst studentto which her mother adds because she was in her home space she would also show off a little bit and her friends would say swara please go out if you are not interested because we are very much interested in what your mother is teaching swara jnusu represents the ideal students politics ira jnu is about having ideas discussions and dissentbesides books and their love for cinema the motherdaughter duo has another thing in common they have both been a part of du and jnu while her mother did her graduation from lsr taught english literature in gargi and is currently a professor of cinema studies in jnu swara did her graduation in english hons from miranda house and masters in sociology from jnu ira says