Akhil Katyal
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Akhil Katyal
Akhil Katyal is a writer, academic, gay activist and translator based in Delhi. He finished his PhD at SOAS and currently teaches literature at Shiv Nadar University. His book of poems Night Charge Extra was short-listed for the Muse India Satish Verma National Award and his second poetry book I See Kashmir from New Delhi at Midnight (forthcoming 2017) won the Editor’s Choice Award from The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. He was part of the Delhi based queer collective Nigah for several years and continues to write frequently on sexuality and politics.
- The Doubleness of SexualityINR 450
This ground-breaking work argues that 'homosexuality' cannot capture the many intersecting idioms of same-sex desire in India whose breadth and romance extend far beyond the term. Instead, Akhil Ka...
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Hansa Wadkar
Hansa Wadkar (24 January 1924 - 23 August 1971) was a Marathi and Hindi actress who appeared in both film and on stage.
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Shashi Deshpande
SHASHI DESHPANDE has written novels, short stories, essays and children's books. Three of her novels have received awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award for That Long Silence. The most recent
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Annemarie Schimmel
Annemarie Schimmel (7 April 1922 - 26 January 2003) was a German scholar on Islam and Sufism.
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Karl Mannheim
Karl Mannheim (1893-1947) held academic posts at the universities of Heidelberg, Frankfurt, and London. His major works include Ideology and Utopia, Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction, Dia
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Sarojini N.
Sarojini N. works with the Sama Resource Group for Women and Health, New Delhi.
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A.A. Brill
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P. K. Sandell
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