Indira Jaising is a Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India. She is Founder Secretary of the Lawyers' Collective and Director of its Women's Rights Initiative. She is Editor of the monthly magazine, The Lawyers. Jaising was awarded the Padma Shree in 2005. Her edited volume, Men's Laws, Women's Lives: A Constitutional Perspective on Religion, Law and Culture in South Asia, addresses the vexed question of how to achieve gender equality in personal laws while maintaining the right to freedom of religion and the cultural rights of minorities (Women Unlimited, 2005).
Qurratulain Hyder is one of Urdu’s greatest fiction writers. Her published work consists of four collections of short stories, five novels and several novellas. She was a journalist, scriptwriter an
Nidhi S. Sabharwal is Associate Professor, Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education, National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), New Delhi.
Ms. Ruby Hembrom is the founder and director of Adivaani (first voices), an archiving and publishing outfit of and by Adivasi (the indigenous peoples of India). A trained instructional designer, edito
Pindiga Ambedkar works at Tricontinental Research. He completed his MA in Development Studies from TISS, Mumbai (2006-2008). He was the vice president of the TISS students’ union during 2007-2008
Sabyasachi Bhattacharya was formerly professor of economic history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Vice-Chancellor, Visva Bharati University, West Bengal; and Chairman, Indian Council of
