Jasodhara Bagchi was an independent scholar, formerly Chairperson of the West Bengal Commission for Women and Director, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University; also Professor of English, Jadavpur University; considered to be a pioneering scholar of women’s studies. Among her books with Stree: Loved and Unloved: The Girl Child in the Family (1997); with Subhoranjan Dasgupta, The Trauma and the Triumph: Gender and Partition in the Easter Region, 2 vols (2006, 2009); Karmakshetre Jouno Henasthar Mokabilye Ain Byabohaer Nirdeshika (How to handle sexual harassment in the workplace); with SAGE: Changing Status of Women in West Bengal, 1970–2000: The Challenges Ahead, 2005.
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria and is the author of The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antiq
VANDANA SHIVA is a world-renowned environmental thinker, activist, and writer. She is Director of Navdanya and of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy. She is
Imre Bangha, a Ph.D. in Hindi from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, is Associate Professor of Hindi, University of Oxford. He works on Old Hindi literature and on the Hungarian reception of Tagore.
