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Kalpana Sharma is an independent journalist and author based in Mumbai. In over four decades as a journalist, she has worked with Himmat Weekly, the Indian Express, the Times of India and The Hindu and as Consulting Editor with Economic and Political Weekly. She is the author of Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia’s Largest Slum (2000) and has edited Single by Choice: Happily Unmarried Women (2019), Missing: Half the Story, Journalism as if Gender Matters (2010). She has also co-edited Whose News?: The Media and Women’s Issues (1994/2006) and Terror Counter-Terror: Women Speak Out (2003).

Prof. Nar Singh (b. 1952) is teaching Applied Economics at the University of Lucknow. He is an awardee of Fellowships twice for Post-Doctoral Research at Budapest (Karl-Marx) University of Economics, Hungary, and Institute of Social Sciences (MSH), Paris. Eight students have been awarded Ph.D. degrees and nine students are pursuing for their researches under his guidance. His areas of specialization includes, International Trade, Industrial Economics, Regional Planning, Mathematical economics and Application of Quantitative Techniques. To his credit, he has got twenty research papers published in various national and international Journals of repute, besides his book 'Sharing of Productivity Gains in Indian Industry'.