Sharada Srinivasan is Assistant Professor in International Development at York University, Toronto. Her research is focussed on gender-based discrimination and violence including young people's experiences of them. Her current work examines the relative value of daughters and sons among the Indian diaspora in Canada, as well as the social transformation underway in India in the context of daughter deficit.
Captain Lakshmi Sahgal of the Rani Jhansi Regiment was born into a highly political, nationalist family. She had her early political education at home, when the family boycotted English goods and spok
N. Ram, a former editor-in-chief and publisher of The Hindu, is a Director of The Hindu Publishing Group. He is the recipient of several awards including the Padma Bhushan, the Sri Lanka Ratna, and
Dorothy M. Figueira is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. She is the author of The Exotic: A Decadent Quest and Translating the Orient: The Reception of Sakuntala in
Debarati Sen is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director of Anthropology at the University of Houston. She is an interdisciplinary cultural anthropologist with expertise in South Asia
Maurice Campbell Cornforth (1909-1980) was a British Marxist philosopher. He is the author of several popular works such as Science versus Idealism (1946), The Theory of Knowledge (1954)
