C.P. CHANDRASEKHAR and JAYATI GHOSH are Professors at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. They have co-authored Crisis as Conquest: Learning from East Asia (Orient Longman 2001), and are co-editing Globalization, Structural Change and Income Distribution (forthcoming, Tulika 2001). Chandrasekhar has also co-edited India's Socio-Economic Database: Surveys of Selected Areas (Tulika 2001). They are both regular columnists for Frontline magazine and Businessline financial daily, and are involved in managing several public information websites: www.macroscan.org, www.kisanwatch.org and www.networkideas.org.
Sharmistha Saha is a faculty at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. She has been a doctoral and postdoctoral fellow at the International Resear
Gita Chaudhuri is associated with Katha's Translation Centre at St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad, and has recently translated M.K. Gandhi's My Experiments with Truth from Gujarati to Bengali.
Ziya Us Salam is a noted literary and social commentator. He has been associated with The Hindu for more than 18 years. He has been The Hindu’s Features Editor for North India editions for 16 ye
