Acknowledgements Volunteering in India: Contexts, Perspectives and Discourses presents the viewpoints and experiences of eminent people and volunteers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines on the ethos, tradition and diversity of volunteering in the Indian Context.
UNV would like to express sincere gratitude to everyone who participated to make this publication possible. Their involvement, commitment and encouragement are exemplary, and reflect the spirit of volunteerism and inclusivity that thrives in the Indian Society. The publication was coordinated by a core team under the overall guidance and supervision of Alexandra Solovieva, Deputy Country Director (P) UNDP India, Nita Chowdhury, Secretary, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Mona Mishra, Executive Officer, UNDP India, Philip Sen, Communications Officer, IYV+10, Office of the Executive Coordinator, UNV and Gul Berry, UNV Country Operations Associate. The core team included Amita Dahiya, Cherukuri Indira Dasgupta and Vedabhyas Kundu, who identified and contextualized the issues on various topics related to volunteerism, approached eminent people, experts, organizations and volunteers on ground. The core team under the guidance of Mona Mishra, Philip Sen and Gul Berry critically reviewed all contributions. Amita Dahiya and Vedabhyas Kundu did the editing. Parul Lihla volunteered to provide valuable research and editing support. The idea for the cover page was by Cherukuri Indira Dasgupta and the Y-Man on the cover was created by Kuhu Dahiya. Volunteering in India: Contexts, Perspectives and Discourses significantly benefited from the invaluable feedback by Kamala Ramachandran, former scientist and editor, who volunteered to review the draft. Special thanks to the Disaster Management Unit, UNDP for their support to capture the role of volunteers during disasters and, Eirik Omlie and Snehal Berry for proofreading the final draft.
We would like to express sincere gratitude to all the authors for sharing their expertise on the different dimensions of volunteering and for making it possible to put together the extent of volunteerism present in our country. We would like to thank: Naheed Haque, Gulzar, Natwar Thakkar, Mathew Cherian, Biraj Kanti Shome, Biplab Loha Choudhury, Shantum Seth, Tushar Gandhi, Tarun Kanti Bose, Vandana Shiva Jyotsna Chatterji, Rajesh Tandon, Rohit Trivedi,, Geeta Chandran, Anubhuti Yadav, Cherukuri Indira Dasgupta, Javed Naqi, Vedabhyas Kundu, Rakesh Mohan, Kamal Kumar Kar, Paresh Tewary, Amita Dahiya, Sunita Godara, Ananya S Guha, Vandana Kumari Jena, Harsh Jaitli, Pooran Chandra Pandey, Praveen Kumar, T K Thomas. We are very thankful to all the volunteers for sharing their experiences/case studies. They are: Santosh Kumar, Mohammed Saif, Ravisha Mall, Sandeep Saxena, Laila TP, Hutoi H. Chophy, Nirmala, Corey Grone, Kush Kalra, T. Manjula, Koothaperumal Anand K, Ram Sundher, Vaishnavi Srinivasan, Hemant Kumar Yadav, Rahul Pawa, Saurav Poddar, Shreya Mishra, Neeraj Jain, Gaurav Gaur, HS Talwar, MS Prashanth, Hari P. Biswas, Shivani Rathee, Shelly Singh, Amalendu Ghosh IAS (Rtd.), Arun Nevatia and Navneet Yadav. We would specifically like to thank Anju Grover, Navneet Prakash, Govind GM, Aheibam Swarnamayee, Praveen Kumar G, S.Saleema, Renu kakkar, Jyotika Badyal, Divya Sebastian, Rihan Ali, Vedika J and others who volunteered to find and facilitate some of these stories. SWVR provided valuable insight, guidance and format. APA style has been followed to cite the references.
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UNV wishes to thank everyone associated with Volunteering in India: Contexts, Perspectives and Discourses.