Arna Seal is a consultant in marketing and social research. She received her masters and doctoral degrees in sociology from Tulane University, New Orleans.
Sadbhavna Trust works on building the strength and capacities of marginalized communities, especially women; helping them 
seek equality through participation in democratic discourse and the
G.S. Jayasree is Reader in English and Director of the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, and is Editor of Samyukta: A Journal of Women's Studies.
van Illich was born in Vienna in 1926. He studied theology and philosophy at the Gregorian University in Rome and obtained a PhD in history at the University of Salzburg. He came to the United States
Shahnaz Rouse teaches Sociology at Sarah Lawrence College, New York. She is the author of various articles on women, religion, nationalism and the State which have been published in South Asia, the
