The opening panel on Women and Religion in South Asia featuring, from the left: Diah Ariani Arimbi from Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia; Madhu Khanna, Religious/Indic Studies Centre for the Study of Comparative Religions, JMI, New Delhi, India; Morny Joy, who chaired the panel; Suwanna Satha-Anand, Philosophy, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; Rosalind Hackett, President of the IAHR.