Saleem Kidwai is a medieval historian, scholar and translator. He has co-edited Same-sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History, a pioneering work documenting and exploring the indigenous routes of same-sex desire in South Asia. He has translated Qurratulain Hyder's Chandni Begum; the singer, Malka Pukhraj's autobiography, Song Sung True; and Mirror of Wonders and Other Tales, a collection of short stories by Syed Rafiq Hussain.
Indira Jaising is the Director of Lawyers‘ Collective Women’s Rights Initiative. She was the first woman to be designated Senior Advocate (1986) and the first woman to be appointed Additional S
Manuela Ciotti is Associate Professor of Global Studies at Aarhus University. She has carried out extensive research in India on modernity, Dalit communities, gender and politics, as well as on the