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Nina Mehta

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Nina Mehta lives in New York, but travels to other places doing social science and ethnographic research. She plays music, formerly in rings and first nation, on Animal Collective's Paw Tracks label, and now a new project called earthbones. She is also currently making a documentary, telling different Jain stories, interrelated versions

, practices and experiences of and with Jainism. Nuns traveling between London, Texas, Florida and pilgrimages in Rajasthan, an ex-monk living in New York, an animal hospital in Delhi, vegan animal activists in Bangalore, a cooperative dairy farm in Tanzania, temples in suburban New Jersey homes, are some of the sites and characters explored.