Neera Sohoni

Neera Kuckreja Sohoni has Masters Degrees in History (Delhi University) and Public Administration (Syracuse University), and a PhD in Economics from Pune University. She was an affiliated research scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. Sohoni is the author of several books including Child in India, Women Behind Bars, A People in Action, Sketches from My Past (a translation of original stories in Hindi by Mahadevi Varma), The Burden of Girlhood: A Global Inquiry into the Status of Girls, as well as two chapters in Women in the Third World: An Encyclopedia on Women and The Human Face of Leprosy. Her short stories and poems have appeared in two recent anthologies of writings by South Asian writers published in California. Her essays and book reviews have been published in leading newspapers in the U.S. and India.