The Yale said Nandita Das is an award-winning actress and director who has leveraged her international profile to campaign on social issues including child mortality, gender and race issues and violence against women.
She was the first Indian to be inducted into the International Women's Forum Hall of Fame for her contributions to the arts and in 2013, she supported the Dark is Beautiful campaign, an effort draw attention to the unjust effects of skin colour bias in India, it added.
Parmesh Shahani heads the Godrej India Culture Lab, an experimental ideas space in Mumbai at the intersection of academia, business and creative industries.
He is also Editor-at-Large for Verve Magazine, India and the author of Gay Bombay: Globalisation, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India.
