Anita Anand is a development and multimedia communications specialist, writer and water colour artist. She began her forty-plus years' career in developing science teaching programmes for rural school children in Madhya Pradesh. She has worked as a policy analyst in Washington DC, and was Director of the Women’s Feature Service, an international service of development writing by women journalists, in Italy and later in India. She has been travelling to Afghanistan since 2004, working with UN agencies and international and national civil society organizations. She is the author of The Beauty Game and co-editor of World Social Forum: Challenging Empires and Whose World is it Anyway? The United Nations, Civil Society and the Multilateral Future.
Ira Raja is Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi and post-doctoral research fellow at La Trobe University, Australia. She has edited Grey Areas: An Anthology of Indian Fi
Jan Breman has conducted anthropological fieldwork in Gujarat between 1962 and 2015. His empirical research, focused on the bottom segments of the rural and urban workforce, discusses the changing
Dr Y.B. Satyanarayana has a doctorate in chemistry and was the principal of a leading college in Hyderabad for twenty-five years. He is involved in active work with Dalits, and is co-founder of the
Eswaran Sridharan is Academic Director and Chief Executive, University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India, in Delhi. He is the author or editor of eleven books on Indian and int
Mahmood Farooqui (born 13 March 1978) is a writer and director. He is the author of Besieged: Voices from Delhi, 1857 (2010). He is a well-known performer of Dastangoi.
