Zaheda Hina is an Urdu journalist and writer from Pakistan. She has received many literary awards and was also nominated in 2006 for Pakistan's highest literary honour, the Pride of Performance award, which she declined as a mark of protest against the military government in her country.
Nikhat Grewal is a child psychologist and aspiring fiction writer and traveler. She believes in the power of bed tea, human weakness and lunar eclipses. She currently lives in New Delhi with her turtl
Radha Chakravarty teaches literature at Gargi College, University of Delhi. She is the author of Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers: Rethinking Subjectivity. Her books in translation include B
JOYA MITRA is a full-time writer, and author of several novels and collections of poems in Bengali. Her involvement with politics began while she was a college student in the late '60s. Her poetry
Bipan Chandra (27 May 1928 - 30 August 2014) was one of the foremost historians of modern India specializing in political and economic history. He taught for many years at Jawaharlal Nehru Universi
Gauri Deshpande (1942-2003) bilingual poet, essayist and short story writer in Marathi and English, has been published extensively in both languages. Her fluency in them has earned her the reputati
