Selvy Thiruchandran
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Selvy Thiruchandran
Selvy Thiruchandran is Executive Director of the Women's Education and Research Centre (WERC), Colombo. She is the author of The Spectrum of Femininity, Feminine Speech Transmission; Subjectivities and Historicism; Stories from the Diaspora: Tamil Women, Writing; Ideology, Caste, Class and Gender; and The Other Victims of War: Emergence of Female-Headed Households in Eastern Sri Lanka.
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M.R. Renukumar
M.R. Renukumar is a poet, painter and translator. With an M.Phil. in economics, his day job is with the State Audit Department in Kottayam. He has published three collections of poetry: Keninilanga
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Premilla D'Cruz
Premilla D'Cruz is Assistant Professor, Organizational Behaviour, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Her research interests include gender, health studies, qualitative research methods and
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Deepak Kumar
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Deepa Ganesh
Deepa Ganesh has a master's in English literature. After a brief stint as an English lecturer, she became a journalist, and is presently Senior Assistant Editor with The Hindu, Bangalore. She is pa
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Tina Biswas
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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 childrenâ![](https://mayday.leftword.com/pub/static/frontend/leftword/luma_child/en_US/images/no-image.png)
Dan Smith
Dan Smith was Secretary-General of International Alert from 2003 to 2015 and also the former Director of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo. He is author of The State of the World Atl