Durgabati Ghose: was born in 1905 into a prosperous Bengali family. Her father Girindra Sekhar Basu was the founder of the Indian Psychoanalytical Society. She accompanied her husband on a trip to Europe in 1932, and wrote about her trip in a book title Paschimjatriki. A very loving, considerate and liberal woman, she was loved and revered by everyone in the family till her death on 11 January 1992.
Richard W. Franke is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA. He has written extensively on Kerala.
Ari Sitas, a South African writer and a sociologist, works at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He has been a leading scholar among the development alternative sociological voices in south
Pawan Dhall has been engaged in activism and writing on queer rights in India since the early 1990s. A founding member of queer group Counsel Club (1993–2002), he worked with SAATHII, an NGO focused
Dani Burlison (she/her) is the creator/editor/author of “All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger and the Female Body” (PM Press, 2019), a short story collection, “Some Places Worth Leaving,” (Tolsun
