Alexis Wright

Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Her books include Plains of Promise (1997), Grog War (2009), The Swan Book (2013). Her second novel Carpentaria (2006), published by Navayana, was the winner of the 2007 Miles Franklin Award, the highest literary award in Australia. Her latest novel The Swan Book (2013) was awarded the 2014 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. She lives in Melbourne with her partner Anatoly Sawenko and has two daughters.
Carpentaria starts before time begins. It offers a portrait of a fictional town called Desperance in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland, where whites have pushed the Aboriginal people to ...

Devaki Jain
Devaki Jain, Honorary Fellow St Anne’s College, Oxford University, is Founder and former Director of the Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi, India. She was previously a lecture

Kamal Dev Pall
Kamal Dev Pall was born on August 9, 1957 in Hoshiarpur, Punjab. Today, he resides in the United State of America. He earned his MA degree in Punjab from Punjab University. He has published two boo

Jonathan Bignell
Jonathan Bignell (born 20 March 1963) is a Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading, United Kingdom. He is the author of Media Semiotics: An Introduction (1997).

Ajoy Kumar Ghosh
Ajoy Kumar Ghosh (20 February 1909–13 January 1962) was an Indian freedom fighter and prominent leader of the Communist Party of India.
Sergio Chejfec
Sergio Chejfec is the author of eighteen books of fiction, poetry, and essays. Born in Argentina, he lived in Venezuela from 1990 to 2005 and since then has resided in New York City, where he is Di

Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Oliver Cockburn (born 5 March 1950) is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times and, since 1991, the Independent. He has also worked as a correspo
Avijit Pathak
Avijit Pathak is a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Paul Amar
PAUL AMAR is associate professor in the Global and International Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Ismat Chughtai
ISMAT CHUGHTAI is the author of several collections of short stories, three novellas, a novel, The Crooked Line, a collection of reminiscences and essays, My Friend, My Enemy, and a memoir, Kaghazi

Rimli Bhattacharya
Rimli Bhattacharya trained in Comparative Literature at Jadavpur and Brown Universities. She has published on gender and performance, primary education, children’s literature and expressive forms

John Harriss
John Harriss is Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. He has been a visiting researcher at the Madras Institute of Development Studies and has published

P. Chandramohan
P. Chandramohan did his Master's in History from Calicut University, Kerala, and pursued his research on the Social and Cultural History of Modern Travancore at the Centre for Historical Studies, J

John Reed
John Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920), affectionately called ‘Jack’ by his friends, was an American journalist, poet, and socialist. He was married to feminist and