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.
Maya John teaches history at the University of Delhi (India). She is a prominent social activist who has been writing on issues of health, education, labour, gender, social movements, transformativ
Nivedita Sen teaches English at Hans Raj College, University of Delhi. Her book Family, School and Nation: The Child and Literary Constructions in Twentieth-Century Bengal has recently been publish
Maya Joshi is Associate Professor of English Literature at Lady Shri Ram College, but considers it her good fortune to have been exposed from childhood to literatures other than English and subject
Iffat Fatima is an independent filmmaker from Kashmir, based in Delhi. Her films include Lanka: the other side of war and peace, The Kesar Saga, In the Realm of the Visual and Boojh Sakey to Boojh.
