Indira Jaising is a Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India. She is Founder Secretary of the Lawyers' Collective and Director of its Women's Rights Initiative. She is Editor of the monthly magazine, The Lawyers. Jaising was awarded the Padma Shree in 2005. Her edited volume, Men's Laws, Women's Lives: A Constitutional Perspective on Religion, Law and Culture in South Asia, addresses the vexed question of how to achieve gender equality in personal laws while maintaining the right to freedom of religion and the cultural rights of minorities (Women Unlimited, 2005).
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
Richard Dyer is Professor of Film Studies at King's College London and the author of several books, including White: Essays on Race and Culture and Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society.
Aniket Jaaware was one of the foremost intellectuals in the country and a much-loved teacher of English Literature. His teaching interests were broad ranging. Former students in Pune University still
