About the Author

Iffat Fatima is an independent filmmaker from Kashmir, based in Delhi. Her films include Lanka: the other side of war and peace, The Kesar Saga, In the Realm of the Visual, Boojh Sakey to Boojh, and Khoon Diy Baarav (Blood Leaves Its Trail). Syeda Saiyidain Hameed is the Founder Member of the Muslim Women's Forum and a Founder Trustee of the Women's Initiative for Peace in South Asia as well as a widely recognized author of books on Islam, Sufism, gender and development, and modern Indian history.