Shilpa Phadke

Shilpa Phadke
Shilpa Phadke is a Professor at the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She is co-author of the critically acclaimed book Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets (2011), co-director of the documentary film Under the Open Sky (2016), and co-editor of Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa (2022). She has published both academically and in the mainstream media in the areas of gender and the city, ethnographies of feminism, feminist pedagogy, middle-class sexualities, middle classes and the new spaces of consumption, feminist pedagogies, feminist parenting, and friendship. One of the greatest joys in her life has been the discovery that one can forge deep friendships at all ages in one's life.

Debbora Battaglia
Debbora Battaglia is associate professor of anthropology at Mount Holyoke College.

Ian Jeffries
Ian Jeffries is a lecturer in the Centre of Russian and East European Studies, University of Wales. His publications include The Industrial Enterprise in Eastern Europe (editor, 1981), The East Ger

Srinath Raghavan
Srinath Raghavan is Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and Lecturer in Defence Studies at King's College, London.

Shanta Gokhale
Shanta Gokhale is a writer and a theatre critic equally felicitous in Marathi and English. She has written two novels and two plays in Marathi. She is the author of Playwright at the Centre: Marath

Shivaji Das
Shivaji Das is a travel writer and photographer who also works as a management consultant in Singapore.

Uma Rani
Uma Rani holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Hyderabad. She specializes in labour and institutional economics, and has recently joined the International Institute of Labour Studies, I

Nausheen Jaffery
Nausheen Jaffery was a historian trained at the University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia. Her book Jahan Ara Begum: A Biographical Study (1614–1681) was published in 2011.