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 ...
Nitasha Kaul is an academic, novelist, and poet, and is currently Associate Professor, Politics and International Relations, at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. Ove
Suniti Namjoshi (born 1941) is a poet and a fabulist. She grew up in India, worked in Canada and at present lives in the southwest of England with fellow writer, Gillian Hanscombe. Her work is play
Gargi Chakravartty, formerly a faculty member of Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, is also a social activist. She is the author of Gandhi's Challenge to Communalism (1987), Coming Out of Parti
Edward Palmer Thompson was an English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. He is probably best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements in the late 18th an
