Rama Melkote is a former professor of political science at Osmania University, Hyderabad. She has been active in the women’s movement, human rights movement, and Amnesty International. She is a founder member of the Anveshi Research Centre for Women’s Studies, author of scholarly books on international relations, co-author of We Were Making History (1989), co-editor of Towards a World of Equals (2017), and translator of feminist texts and debates on reservations for women into Telugu. She worked as the State Advisor to The National Food Security Commission and is associated with women’s groups working on violence, communalism, minority communities, and Dalits.

Speaker @ HLF 2023