Kalpana Kannabiran is Professor and Regional Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad. She was Professor of Sociology and part of the founding faculty of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. Her work has focussed on understanding the social foundations of non-discrimination, structural violence, and questions of constitutionalism and social justice in India. Author of Tools of Justice: Non-discrimination and the Indian Constitution (2012), her writing straddles law and gender studies, law and literature and human rights. She is recipient of the Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists, 2012, for her work in the discipline of law.