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- Dilip Simeon: Dilip
Simeon is the chairperson of the AMAN and also a senior fellow at the
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in Delhi. Earlier he taught history
at the University of Delhi. He has been active in democratic and
anti-communal mobilisation for past many years and was a founding
member of the Sampradayikta Virodhi Andolan (Struggle Against
Communalism). He has published extensively in leading journals
and newspaper and had also authored a book titled The Politics of
Labour Under Late Colonialism: Workers, Trade Unions and the State in
Chota Nagpur, 1928-1939, Manohar Publications.
- Farooque Sheikh:
Farooque Sheikh is a well known theatre and film actor. He takes keen
interest in social and political issues and has been a vocal supporter
of anti-communal struggles.
- Kavita Panjabi: Kavita Panjabi teaches at the Department of Comparative Literature,
and in the School of Women's Studies, at Jadavpur University,
Kolkata. She has done extensive research on
feminist political struggle in the third world
and women in the Tebhaga and Naxalite movements, and her special
interests are in the fields of Latin American Literatures and
Critical, Cross-Cultural and Feminist Theory. She is currently
chairperson of the NCERT Focus Group on Gender Issues in Education
for the National Curriculum Review, has been active in anti-communal
movements and democratic movements in India, and is co-author of
a report on communal violence in Gujarat The Next Generation: In the
Wake of the Genocide - A Report on the Impact of the Gujarat Pogrom
on Children and the Young; editor of the anthology, Nostalgia for
the Future in Latin American Literatures; and author of a Pakistan
Diary entitled Old Maps and New: Legacies of the Partition.
- Rajshree Dasgupta: Rajashri Dasgupta was the Themes Editor of
The Telegraph, Kolkata and started her career as a journalist with
Business Standard in 1983. She is now working as a freelance journalist
and is a contributing editor with Himal Southasian with special
interest in issues relating to gender, health, development and
politics. She has been involved with the women 's and peace movements
for many years.
- Satyakam Joshi: Satyakam Joshi is senior fellow at the
Centre for Social Studies in Surat. He is also a Trustee of the leading
Gandhian educational institute, the Gram Seva Samaj. He has
worked extensively on Panchayati Raj Institutions, issues related to
tribal and dalit identities and informal labour. He has conducted
several training workshops with elected members of the Panchayati Raj
institutions. His publication include Panchayati Raj: Smajik Nyay
Samiti onu sasktikran, (In Gujrati), July 2002, Centre for Social
Studies, Surat.
- Urvashi Butalia: Urvashi Butalia has been involved with the
women's movement for many years and is the founder of the leading
feminist publishing house in India Zubaan. Apart from many articles and
papers leading newspapers and journals, she has written and edited two
books The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of
India (Viking Penguin and Duke University Press) and Speaking Peace:
Women's Voices from Kashmir (Kaliand Zed Books, London).
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