Who We Are

Anindita Sengupta
Executive Editor

Anindita is a poet, writer and journalist in Bangalore, India. Her poetry has appeared in Muse India, Talking Poetry, Kritya, Asian Cha, and In Other Voices (an anthology by Delhi Poetree). She was the winner of the Toto Awards for Creative Writing in 2008. When not penning verse, she works at the India Foundation of Arts (IFA) and is a consultant with Iconoculture and Fida. She can be contacted at: anu. sengupta[at]gmail.com and her personal blog is here.

Indhu Subramaniam
Associate Editor

Indhu is Director of Hengasara Hakkina Sangha. She has been engaged with women’s rights advocacy, research and activism for ten years. She is also part of an international network of young feminist activists and researchers brought together by DAWN (Development Alternatives for Women in a New era).

Usha BN
Associate Editor

Usha is a women’s rights activist and translator in Bangalore and Programme Coordinator at Hengasara Hakkina Sangha. She is also in charge of recruiting new members at UV, a task which causes many sleepless nights. She travels frequently and is interested in history, religion and spirituality.

Dilnavaz Bamboat
Contributor

Dilnavaz is a preschool owner, educator, freelance writer and blogger in Mumbai. A mental health therapist by training, she worked on the Beverly Hills PR scene before returning to psychology, her first and true love. She is deeply committed to women’s empowerment, both for its own sake and for its ability to impact children’s lives.

Payal Saksena
Contributor

Payal is a human rights lawyer working on a gender and law program at Global Rights: Partners for Justice, Bangalore. She works toward making women’s issues audible within the human rights framework and the Indian legal system. She is passionate about democracy, passionately against discrimination, and occasionally writes love poetry.

Anita Ratnam
Contributor

Anita is Founder Director of Samvada Youth Resource Centres and the Chairperson of the National Youth Foundation. She has been involved in working with young people and initiating them into activism since 1984. Her work includes innovative research, designing and facilitating workshops and writing on a variety of social issues.

Rebecca Eapen
Contributor

Rebecca is an independent consultant who has worked for various gender equality concerns over the last ten years. During this period she has worked on an access to justice programme for women, various issues relating to violence against women, sexual harassment at the workplace and community legal education projects.

Rebecca Band
Contributor

Becky is originally from Philadelphia, US, but has been in India for over a year working in the development sector. She spent six months in Bangalore with IT for Change, and is now based in Jaipur working at CUTS as a gender specialist of sorts. She enjoys dancing, yoga and eating out. Her personal blog is at Becky Blab.

Meena Kandasamy
Contributor

Meena is a Chennai-based feminist writer who is obsessed with the Ambedkarite dream of caste-annihilation. She has translated half a dozen books related to the Dalit movement and/or Tamil nationalism. Her first collection of poems, Touch, was published in 2006. She is currently writing a novel. She blogs at Green Chilly.

Sharanya Manivannan
Contributor

Sharanya currently lives in Chennai and is a writer and journalist. She is particularly interested in feminist perspectives of pop culture, women in the arts and the creation of a feminism that is relevant to India today. Her book of poems Witchcraft will be published later this year and she blogs at http://sharanyamanivannan.wordpress.com.