Radha Chakravarty teaches literature at Gargi College, University of Delhi. She is the author of Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers: Rethinking Subjectivity. Her books in translation include Bankimchandra's Kapalkundal; Tagore's Chokher Bali, Farewell Song: Shesher Kabita, Gora, Boyhood Days and The Land of Cards: Stories, Poems & Plays for Children; Mahasweta Devi's In the Name of the Mother: Four Stories, and the anthology Crossings: Stories from Bangladesh and India. She has edited Bodymaps: Stories by South Asian Women, and is currently co-editing The Essential Tagore for Visva Bharati and Harvard.
Radhika Coomaraswamy is a Sri Lankan lawyer, diplomat and human rights advocate who served as the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Special Representative for Children and Armed Confli
M.K. BHADRAKUMAR served as a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service for 3 decades, with postings including India's ambassador to Uzbekistan (1995–98) and to Turkey (1998–2001). He was al
Vasanth Kannabiran is a feminist writer, a pioneer of the Indian women’s movement, founding member of the Asmita Resource Centre for Women and member of the collective, Stree Shakti Sanghatana. S
Brinda Karat is one of India’s most prominent communist leaders. She is among the founders of the All India Democratic Women’s Association, and a former member of the Rajya Sabha. She is a memb
A member of the Indian Foreign Service, Pavan K. Varma has served in Moscow, in New York at the Indian Mission to the United Nations, in London, where he was director of the Nehru Centre, and as In
