Gita Ramaswamy is best known for her work with Hyderabad Book Trust that has published over four hundred and fifty titles in Telugu since 1980. She has authored several books in English and translated extensively from Telugu into English; most recently her memoirs Land Guns Caste Woman: The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary.
Bela Bhatia fervently urges privileged groups to recognise and respond to the struggles of the marginalised. She acknowledges caste’s influence, but does not fully confront its pervasive role,…