Shilpa Phadke is a Professor at the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She is co-author of the critically acclaimed book Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets (2011), co-director of the documentary film Under the Open Sky (2016), and co-editor of Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa (2022). She has published both academically and in the mainstream media in the areas of gender and the city, ethnographies of feminism, feminist pedagogy, middle-class sexualities, middle classes and the new spaces of consumption, feminist pedagogies, feminist parenting, and friendship. One of the greatest joys in her life has been the discovery that one can forge deep friendships at all ages in one's life.
Yaari centres friendship in the politics of everyday life and well-being. Drawing on narratives of women and queer folx from South Asia, it reflects on friendship in ...
Sulekha Sanyal was born in 1928 in an impoverished family that had once been indigo planters. She became a communist while a student. At thirty-five she died of leukemia, leaving a number of short
Urmilesh is a journalist and author. His published works in Hindi include Jharkhand: Jadui Zameen Ka Andhera, Bihar Ka Sach, and Kashmir: Virasat aur Siyasat.
Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury is Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, Kolkata. Her specialization is in regional cooperation, energy politics, refugees and displacement, women and conflict situations
Samar Bosu Mullick is also known as Sanjay Bosu Mullick. He has been engaged in the Adivasi struggle for identity, autonomy and rights to resources since 1968. He has published many books and paper
Vulli Dhanaraju is an assistant professor in the Department of History, Assam University. He is the editor of several books including Debating Tribal Identity: Past and Present (2015) and Voice of
