Indira Chowdhury was formerly Professor of English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. A PhD in History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, her book The Frail Hero and Virile History (OUP, 1998) was awarded the Tagore Prize (Rabindra Puraskar) in 2001. She also compiled the Supplement of Indian English words published in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary in 1995. In 2006, she was awarded the New India Fellowship for her forthcoming book on the institutional history of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
Vinay Chandran is a counselor and Executive Director of Swabhava Trust, Bangalore, a non-governmental organization working with issues related to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and similar (LG
Charu Gupta is Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi. Her books include Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India (2002), and Co
Laurence Cox directs the MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and co-edits the social movements journal Interface. He is active in
