Arjun Dangle, born in Mumbai in 1945, is an important name in the politics and literature of Maharashtra. A founder member of the militant Dalit youth organization, the Dalit Panthers, he has also been the president of the State Unit of the Bharatiya Republican Party of India.
Dangle’s poetry, essays and short stories, published to critical acclaim, have been translated into several Indian and foreign languages.
Astha Singla is a Research Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, JNU. Her main research interests cover various aspects of labour economics (youth labour markets, disadvantag
Mir Muhammad Taqi, known as Mir Taqi Mir, was an Urdu poet of the 18th-century Mughal India and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself. He was one of the principal poets of
MADHUMITA DUTTA is an assistant professor in the department of geography at The Ohio State University, USA. Her research explores themes around women’s labour, worker narratives and labour o
Debi Chatterjee retired as Professor, Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University. She is the founder-editor of the journal Contemporary Voice of Dalit.
Sunetra Gupta is Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at Oxford University. She is the author of four novels: the first, Memories of Rain (1992), won the Sahitya Akademi Prize in 1997. The others
