Saleem Kidwai
Saleem Kidwai
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.
Shailaja Kalelkar Parikh
Shailaja Kalelkar Parikh, a writer and former journalist, was also a lecturer in political science.
Ashapurna Debi
Ashapurna Debi was born in 1909. Her conservative family did not send her to school, but encouraged by her mother, she learnt to read and write on her own and published her first poem in the childrenâMyron Rush
N/ARavikumar
Ravikumar is a Tamil critic, translator and poet who has founded several ‘little magazines’. His nonfiction has been published as Venomous Touch: Notes on Caste, Culture and Politics (2009). He waShireen Moosvi
Shireen Moosvi is professor of history at Aligarh Muslim University and is the author of The Mughal Empire, c. 1595: A Statistical Study (1987) and Taxation, Trade and People in Mughal India (2008)
Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury
Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury is Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, Kolkata. Her specialization is in regional cooperation, energy politics, refugees and displacement, women and conflict situations
Penny Johnson
PENNY JOHNSON is an independent researcher who works closely with the Institute of WomenÂ’s Studies at Birzeit University, where she edits the Review of WomenÂ’s Studies. Recent writing and r