Vasanth Kannabiran is a feminist writer, a pioneer of the Indian women’s movement, a founding member of the Asmita Resource Centre for Women and member of the collective, Stree Shakti Sanghatana. She has worked for over four decades on issues of development, rights, communal harmony and peace, apart from bringing the concerns of gender and equality into the contemporary political discourse. She is the author of A Grief to Bury: Memories of Love, Work & Loss and Sathyavathi: Confronting Caste, Class and Gender, among others; has co-authored Web of Deceit and De-Eroticising Assault: Essays on Modesty, Honour and Power; and was a popular columnist for a Telugu daily. Kannabiran has also written and directed five ballets in English.
An octogenarian, P. Raman brings with him the trials and tribulations of the print media spread over half a century. Beginning as a sub-editor, he worked with a dozen English dailies and weeklies,
Dr. Omar Khalidi (1953 - 29 November 2010) was born in Hyderabad, India and was an eminent Muslim scholar, a staff member of MIT in the USA and an author.
Rustam Singh (b. 1955) is a philosopher and translator. He has in the past been associated with various institutions such as Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Indian Institute of Advanc
Ammu Joseph is a journalist, author, media analyst and editorial consultant, and author based in Bangalore, India. She writes primarily on issues relating to gender, human development, the media and c
Andre Gunder Frank (1929-2005) was a German-American economist and historian. He held many teaching appointments in various universities across the world and authored over 40 books in his lifetime.
Sho Kuwajima is Professor Emeritus of South Asian Studies, Osaka University of Foreign Studies. He studied at the Indian School of International Studies in 1962-66, and was Senior Fellow at the Ind
