Anand Prakash Author & Editor

Shirin M. Rai is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies and the Director of the Warwick Interdisciplinary  Research Centre for International Development. She is a Fellow of the British Academy. Her current work has three strands: feminist international political economy; gender and political institutions; and politics and performance. She has written extensively on these issues. She was a member of the PSA Commission on Care (2016) and Director of the Leverhulme Trust Programme on Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament (2007–2011). Her latest book is Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament (with Carole Spary, 2019). She is currently working on a book: Depletion: The Human Cost of Caring.   Anand Prakash, PhD, taught English Literature in Hansraj College, University of Delhi. He has written extensively on literary theory and published poems both in English and Hindi. He supports the cause of writing committed to change. His published books include Marxist Literary Theory; Wuthering Heights: An Interpretation; Muktibodh in Our Time (co-authored) and Text and Performance: A Theoretical View (co-authored). His edited volumes include Approaches to Literary Theory: Marxism; Nineteenth Century Thought; Modern Indian Thought; Interventions and Republicanism in Shakespeare.