Vidya Shah

Vidya Shah is an Indian singer, musician and writer. They have a son Anant and daughter Antara.

Publications The Challenge of Changing values in Indian Culture: The case of Music; Presented at a Seminar organised by INTACH and Nakshband Educational Trust, IIC, 15 March, New Delhi Published in the South Asia Foundation Quarterly, April 2008; My Body is Not Mine: Book on the MSM community and rights violations across 6 states in India in collaboration with the Naz Foundation International, supported by DFID-PMO, November 2008 Technical Paper on Gender, Vulnerabilities and HIV/AIDS for the UNIFEM South Asian Regional Office, New Delhi, January 2003 Layers of Silence on Cross Border Trafficking and Women's vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, for the UNRISD Project on HIV and Development, 2002 Brokered Livelihood: Debt, labour migration and Development in Tribal Western India in Labor Mobility in Rural Society, edited by Ben Rogaly and Arjaan de Haan, Published by Frank Cass Publishers, UK, 2002 Strength in Action: An Educators Guide on Preventing Domestic Violence, Breakthrough , 2004 Talking HIV and Gender: Media and Messaging a Hand book; Women's Feature Service and UNIFEM, 2006

Discography Anja (Realize) Far From Home (Medieval Punditz) Ahsana Om Shanti (Six Degrees and Times Music). Har Mann Mein Aman for the National Commission for Women Ham se Zameen aur Aasman for the Ministry of Youth Affairs In January 2008 she released her latest CD, Hum Sab

Other projects Creative Consultant: "The World in the Balance" For PBS; Directed by Sarah Holt; Executive Producers Linda Harrar for WGBH; 2004 Editor "People Plus" a book on the lives of HIV positive people, UNAIDS India, 2001 Creative writer For Women's day campaign, 2001 for Ministry of Women and Child Welfare and Centre for Media and Alternative Communication (CMAC), March 2001 Consultant in an advocacy project on "Peace and Equality" for National Commission for Women (NCW) December 1999 Script and Research For a documentary film on Visual Anthropology, Doordarshan, National television channel, 1997–98 Editor Paper on 'Lacquer work in India' for a UNESCO workshop in Myanmar, UNESCO, 1996 and Paper on 'Basic Education in India' for a UNESCO conference in India, UNESCO 1995