C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR and JAYATI GHOSH are Professors at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. They have co-authored Crisis as Conquest: Learning from East Asia (Orient Longman 2001), and are co-editing Globalization, Structural Change and Income Distribution (forthcoming, Tulika 2001). Chandrasekhar has also co-edited India's Socio-Economic Database: Surveys of Selected Areas (Tulika 2001). They are both regular columnists for Frontline magazine and Businessline financial daily, and are involved in managing several public information websites: www.macroscan.org, www.kisanwatch.org and www.networkideas.org.
Joel Kuortti is Acting Professor of English at the Department of English, University of Tampere, Finland. Apart from Indian women's writings in English, he is interested in diasporic Indian literat
Ranabir Samaddar is a leading social scientist and director of the Calcutta Research Group. He is known for his work on issues of migration, peace and human rights, belongs to the school of cr
GAURI DESHPANDE, (1942-2003) bilingual poet, essayist and short story writer in Marathi and English, has been published extensively in both languages. As a translator par excellence, her most outst
Baby Kamble worked as an activist in Phaltan, a small town in Satara district of Maharashtra. A veteran of the Dalit movement in Maharashtra, she was inspired by the radical leadership of Dr Babasaheb
