Kumkum Sangari
Kumkum Sangari
Kumkum Sangari, editor of the book, is William F. Vilas Research Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has published extensively on British, American and Indian literature, critical theory, religious conversion, medieval oral devotional traditions, nationalist figures such as Gandhi and Annie Besant, Bombay cinema, televisual memory, and contemporary gender issues such as personal law, domestic labour, the beauty industry, sex selection, widow immolation and communal violence.
Pawan Dhall
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 focusedGauri Deshpande
Gauri Deshpande (1942-2003) bilingual poet, essayist and short story writer in Marathi and English, has been published extensively in both languages. Her fluency in them has earned her the reputati
John McIlroy
John McIlroy is Professor of Employment Relations at Middlesex University Business School. He is Secretary for the Study of Labour History.Rosy Thomas
Rosy Thomas, well-known Malayalam writer and translator, married Malayalam playwright and literary critic, C J Thomas, in 1951, when he was a professor at her father’s tutorial college in Changan
Cornel West
Cornel West (born 2 June 1953) is an American philosopher, political activist and preeminent public intellectual. He is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and Prof
Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky is the author of the bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels, including, Fire Sale and Blacklist. Winner of many awards, including the Cartier Diamond Dagger award for lifetime achieveme