Editing Mira Nair (section)

==Early life and education==
Nair was born in [[Rourkela]], [[Odisha]], India, into a [[Punjabis|Punjabi]] family. She grew up with her two older brothers and parents in [[Bhubaneswar]], [[Odisha]].<ref name="Applause Theater & Cinema Books">{{cite book|last1=Muir|first1=John Kenneth|title=Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair|date=1 June 2006|publisher=Applause Theater & Cinema Books|isbn=1557836493}}</ref> Her father, Amrit Lal Nair, was an officer of the [[Indian Administrative Service]], and her mother, Parveen Nayyar, was a social worker.<ref name="Mira Nair">{{cite web|title=Mira Nair|url=http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2007-Li-Pr/Nair-Mira.html|website=Encyclopedia of World Biography|access-date=29 April 2015}}</ref>

Nair lived in Bhubaneswar until age 18 and attended a convent, following which she left to attend [[Loreto Convent, Tara Hall, Shimla]],<ref>{{cite news |title=I'd eat onions before kissing Shashi Tharoor: Mira Nair |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Id-eat-onions-before-kissing-Shashi-Tharoor-Mira-Nair/articleshow/16235108.cms |work=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref> an Irish-Catholic missionary school, where she developed an infatuation with English literature. She then went on to study at [[Miranda House]] of [[Delhi University]], where she majored in sociology. 

Nair applied for a transfer, and at 19, she attended [[Harvard University]] on a scholarship.<ref name="voices.cla.umn.edu">{{cite web|last1=Blenski|first1=Simon|last2=Debreyne|first2=Adrien Maurice|last3=Hegewisch|first3=Martha Eugina|last4=Trivedi|first4=Avani Anant|title=Mira Nair|url=http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/nairMira.php|publisher=University of Minnesota|access-date=30 April 2015}}</ref> She concentrated in Visual and Environmental Studies, with a focus on  documentary filmmaking, and graduated in 1979.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Walsh |first=Colleen |date=2022-03-04 |title=Filmmaker Mira Nair donates archive to Harvard |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/03/filmmaker-mira-nair-donates-archive-to-harvard/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=Harvard Gazette |language=en-US}}</ref>