Srimati Basu is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, and the author of The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India (2015). She has previously written about Indian women and inheritance laws in the monograph, She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property and Propriety (1999), and on property, law, marriage, intimacy, violence and popular culture in various anthologies and journals, edited the Dowry and Inheritance volume in the series Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism and is a contributing blogger to Ms. magazine.
Pankaj Sekhsaria is a member of the environmental action group, Kalpavriksh where he works on issues of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and also edits the bi-monthly newsletter, the Protected Area
Rabisankar Bal (born 1962) is a Bangla novelist and short-story writer who has written over fifteen novels, five short-story collections, one volume of poetry and one volume of literary essays.
Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hund
