Sandhya is a social anthropologist, whose work specializes in issues of law, hate and social, memory in India and the British South Asian diaspora. Located at the intersection of anthropology, and critical legal studies, her work analyses the potential of hate crime laws to address structural inequalities and respond to culturally and historically specific experiences… Read More »Sandhya Fuchs
Sumathi Ramaswamy is James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of History and International Comparative Studies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. She has published extensively on language politics, gender studies, spatial studies and the history of cartography, visual studies and the modern history of art, and more recently, digital humanities and the history of philanthropy. Her recent… Read More »Sumathi Ramaswami
Kajri Jain is Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on images at the intersections between art, religion, politics, and vernacular business cultures in modern and contemporary India; she also writes on contemporary art. Jain’s latest book Gods in the Time of Democracy (Duke University Press, 2021)… Read More »Kajri Jain
Dakxinkumar Bajrange is an award winning filmmaker, playwright and an activist from the Chhara De-notified Tribes of Ahmedabad in the western part of India. Currently, he works as an “Artistic Director” at Budhan Theatre (www.budhantheatre.org). He has directed and supervised 52 plays at the Budhan Theatre team. As a Filmmaker, he directed 120 fiction and… Read More »Dakxinkumar Bajrange
Alice Tilche is a Lecturer in Anthropology and Museum Studies at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. She is author of Adivasi Art and Activism: curation in a nationalist age (Washington University Press) and co-director of award-winning films Sundarana and Broken Gods. Alice is currently running several collaborative research projects funded by the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities… Read More »Alice Tilche
Born in Sewa village of Sawai Madhopur district of Rajasthan. MA, MPhil and Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi after completing his initial education at local schools and colleges. Teaching at JNU since April 2007 after teaching at Delhi University and Pondicherry University. Presently Associate Professor at Center for Indian Languages, JNU. Recently, he… Read More »Ganga Sahay Meena
Parimal Hansda (born 1986) works as a teacher at Onda High School in Bankura district of West Bengal. He writes in both Santali and Bengali. He has published three collections of poetry: “Dhunwa Otang Og Kana” (Smoke is Drifting Away, 2015) in Santali, “Kobita Tomar Jonnyo” (Poems for You, 2017) in Bengali, and “Hende Gulab… Read More »Hansda Parimal
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar lives between Chandil and Ghatsila; has authored 6 books in English, and writings which have been published in The Hindu, The Indian Express, The New York Times, The Times of India, The Asian Age, Scroll, Reader’s Digest, Outlook, Mint Lounge, Huffington Post, and other places; and translated so far from Santhali and… Read More »Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
Ruby Hembrom is an Adivasi cultural documentarian and practitioner based in Kolkata. She is the founder of adivaani (first voices), an archiving and publishing outfit of and by Adivasis (the indigenous peoples of India) started in July 2012 as a non-profit organization. She is the writer of adivaani’s Santal Creation Stories for children, a recast… Read More »Ruby Hembrom
Professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland (IHAR, FTSR).After a PhD in Social Anthropology, on the Adivasi (Jodia Poraja) of Odisha (CEIAS, EHESS), he worked on “Adivasi art: history, institutions, production network and local realities”, during a post-doctoral Scholarship with the Quai Branly Museum (2006-7) and then on India’s legal provisions for Indigenous peoples in… Read More »Raphaël Rousseleau