By Himani Bannerji
Introduction
“When I agreed to write on Dorothy (Smith) I didn’t expect it to be a difficult task. She has been with me through much of my adult life, it would be a simple matter I thought, of sitting down with the intent of writing an account. It would begin at the beginning and tell in the middle what I saw, felt and learnt until the end, our last encounter. But it turned out to be quite the opposite, for the very reason that we were together for so long and so involved in seeing the world in similar ways, to which we came independently and conjointly.”