Selvy Thiruchandran is Executive Director of the Women's Education and Research Centre (WERC), Colombo. She is the author of The Spectrum of Femininity, Feminine Speech Transmission; Subjectivities and Historicism; Stories from the Diaspora: Tamil Women, Writing; Ideology, Caste, Class and Gender; and The Other Victims of War: Emergence of Female-Headed Households in Eastern Sri Lanka.
Saleem Kidwai is a medieval historian, scholar and translator. He has co-edited Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History (2000), a pioneering work documenting and exploring the
