Kalpana Kannabiran is a founder member of Asmita Resource Centre for Women, and Professor of Sociology at NALSAR University of Law. She is co-author of De-Eroticising Assault: Essays on Modesty, Honour and Power ; co-editor of The Situated Politics of Belonging and editor of The Violence of Normal Times: Essays on Women's Lived Realities. She was awarded the VKRV Rao Prize in Social Science Research for 2003 by the Indian Council for Social Science Research and Institute for Social and Economic Change.
