Dr. Syeda Saiyidain Hameed is a former Member of the Planning Commission of India. She is a feminist and a writer who is widely recognized for her passionate engagement in public affairs and social issues, especially for women, minorities and peace. She is the Founder Member of the Muslim Women’s Forum and a Founder Trustee of the Women’s Initiative for Peace in South Asia. An author of books on Islam, Sufism, gender and development, and modern Indian history, Dr. Hameed was awarded the Padma Shri in 2007.
Rafia Zakaria is a columnist for Dawn (Pakistan) and the Boston Review’s ‘Reading Other Women’ Series. She is the author of The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan (Bea
Srimati Basu is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, and Anthropology, at the University of Kentucky, working on law, marriage, and violence. She is the author of the monograph, The
Ita Mehrotra is a comics maker and researcher based out of New Delhi. Her non-fiction comics have previously been published by Zubaan Books, theWire.in, Yoda Press, AdAstra Comics, popula.com, Goet
