Anita Anand is a development and multimedia communications specialist, writer and water colour artist. She began her forty-plus years' career in developing science teaching programmes for rural school children in Madhya Pradesh. She has worked as a policy analyst in Washington DC, and was Director of the Women’s Feature Service, an international service of development writing by women journalists, in Italy and later in India. She has been travelling to Afghanistan since 2004, working with UN agencies and international and national civil society organizations. She is the author of The Beauty Game and co-editor of World Social Forum: Challenging Empires and Whose World is it Anyway? The United Nations, Civil Society and the Multilateral Future.
Urvashi Butalia is a publisher and writer. Co-founder of Kali for Women, India’s first feminist publisher, and now director of Zubaan, she is also the author of the award-winning oral hi
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
E. Ahmet Tonak is a Research Affiliate at Smith College and teaches at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). From 2018 to 2024, he was an economist at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Rese
Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi is an Indian civil servant who served as 17th Chief Election Commissioner of India. He was appointed as the CEC as the successor to Navin Chawla on 30 July 2010. He has
Marcello Musto (1976) is Associate Professor of Sociological Theory at York University (Toronto). His numerous books and articles have been published worldwide in more than twenty languages. Among
