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Kamal Mitra Chenoy

Kamal Mitra Chenoy is professor in the school of international studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is a member of the India Organising Committee and facilitator for the programme group of the World Social Forum, 2004.

Recent articles


Making history: the future of the World Social Forum

The World Social Forum in Mumbai was democracy in action in search of a fairer, people-centred world, says one of its Indian organisers. But to advance its global ambitions, must it look beyond Brazil as the site of future forums?

Dateline Mumbai: the 2004 World Social Forum

Three years on from the first World Social Forum in Brazil’s Porto Alegre, an organiser of the latest WSF in India presents his vision of the purpose of this global gathering of activists, popular movements and NGOs.

The Asian Social Forum: a new public space

The first Asian Social Forum, held in Hyderabad in January 2003, anticipated the World Social Forum at Porto Alegre, Brazil later that month. But it was a pioneering event in its own right.