Piya Chatterjee is a faculty member in the Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Scripps College, Claremont, California, USA. She is the author of A Time for Tea: Women, Labor and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation (2001).
Subhashini Ali, formerly the president of the All India Democratic Women's Association, is a Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
Preet Malik, a career diplomat, had served as the ambassador to Bahrain, Cuba and Myanmar and was the high commissioner to Singapore, Tanzania, Seychelles, Malaysia and Brunei.
Arundhati Roy is a novelist, activist and a world citizen. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things. Since then, she has concentrated her writing on political is
