Monica Das

Dr. Monica Das is Associate Professor in Economics at Gargi College and a fellow at the Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi, India. Her field of interest is feminist economics. She is a member of IAFFE, based in Washington DC. She is the author of Her Story So Far: Tales of the Girl Child in India and The Other Woman, an edited volume which draws attention to the issue of the socio-economic impact of underage marriage, bigamy and polygamy on the Human Development Index and Gender-related Development Index. She is the great-granddaughter of Oriya writer Fakir Mohan Senapati.