Arupa Patangia Kalita is an Assamese novelist and short-story writer. She has received several literary honours including, in 2014, the Sahitya Akademi Award for her book of short stories Mariam Austin Othoba Hira Barua.
Shrikant Verma (1931-86) was a central figure in the Nai Kavita movement in the late 1950s and the early 1960s. Born in Bilaspur, he did his Masters in Hindi from Nagpur University in 1956, then mo
Jun-ichi Okabe is Professor, Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University and Professor, Faculty of Economics, Yokohama National University.
Feryal Ali Gauhar read Political Economy at McGill University. She trained in documentary film production in Europe and at the University of Southern California. Her first novel, The Scent of Wet E
Ritu Menon co-founded Kali for Women, India’s first feminist press, in 1984, and is founder-director of Women Unlimited, an associate of KfW. She is the author of several books, among them the gr
Carlos Ron is the President of the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples, and serves as the Vice-minister of Foreign Affairs for North America.
