Pranjali Bandhu is an activist researcher-writer and co-founder with T.G. Jacob of South Asia Study Centre, Nilgiris, and its publishing imprint Odyssey. She has published articles on varied themes of cinema and media, tourism, rights of women, Dalits and Adivasis, education, environment, nationality, economy, refugees, agrarian and cross culture issues. Her books include Black and White of Cinema in India; Dancing to Global Capital: Media in India (also published in Hindi translation); The Tibetan Saga for National Liberation; Reflections on the Caste Question: The Dalit Situation in South India (with T.G. Jacob); Encountering the Adivasi Question: South Indian Narratives (with T.G. Jacob); the edited volumes War and National Liberation: CPI Documents 1939-1945; Eastern Marxism and Other Essays by S.N. Nagarajan (co-edited with T.G. Jacob); and Back to Basics: A J.C. Kumarappa Reader.