Ira Raja is Lecturer in English at the University of Delhi in India. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature. She has co-edited with John Thieme, an anthology of South Asian writings on food, The Table is Laid (2007). She and Kay Torney Souter have edited Desiring Daughters: an anthology of mother-daughter relationships in Indian Literature (Women Unlimited).
Radhika Coomaraswamy was formerly Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission, Sri Lanka, and Director, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo. She was formerly the United Nations Special
