Renuka Ray became a Gandhian and a nationalist at sixteen when she met Mahatma Gandhi at the house of her uncle, Chittaranjan Das, in Calcutta. Aside from her political career, she was a well-known pioneering social worker, and a former president of the All India Women's Conference.
Naomi Klein is a Canadian author and journalist who authored three landmark books — No Logo (1999), Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) and This Changes Everything: Capital
A pioneering scholar in gender studies, Maithreyi Krishnaraj was formerly professor and director, and presently Senior Honorary Fellow, Research Centre for Women's Studies, SNDT Women's University.
Kamla Bhasin worked with the Freedom From Hunger Campaign of the FAO for over twenty years, and is a well-known gender trainer. She has written extensively on participatory training; on women; and
