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.
Shubhra Chakrabarti teaches history at Dayal Singh College, University of Delhi. She completed her doctoral research under the guidance of B.B. Chaudhuri on "Indigenous Enterprise in Eastern India:
Bama teaches in a primary school in Uthramerur, near Chennai. She draws her energy from the Dalit movements in Tamil Nadu and her writing is a source of strength for the growing Dalit consciousness
Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has authored and co-edited several books and more than 120 scholarly articles. She is Executive Secretary of In
An alumnus of Columbia University, Farah Naqvi is a feminist, activist and writer. Her work for nearly three decades – from villages to public policy spaces – has focused on justice, de
