Krupa Shandilya is an Associate Professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. She is the author of the monograph Intimate Relations:
Ajaya Kumar Naik is Associate Fellow, IIDS, New Delhi, and has had more than 10 years of research experience in the fields of informal sector, employment, and poverty.
R. Chudamani (1931–2010) is a prolific and important twentieth-century Tamil writer, painter, who also wrote in English. She wrote over five hundred short stories, and several novellas, including