Paddy Whannel (1922–1980) was founder and head of the Education Department at the British Film Institute, Associate Professor of Film at Northwestern University, an an influential figure in the development of film studies in Britain and the United States.
Kumari Jayawardena is a leading feminist activist and academic in Sri Lanka. She is the author of The Rise of the Labour Movement in Ceylon; Ethnic and Class Conflict in Sri Lanka; Feminism and Nat
Pradip Kumar Datta is the author of Carving Blocs: Communal Ideology in Early Twentieth-Century Bengal (1999) and one of the co-authors of Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flag: A Critique of the Hindu Rig
G.S. Jayasree is Reader in English and Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, and is Editor of Samyukta: A Journal of Women’s Studies.