Ashok Mitra
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Ashok Mitra
Ashok Mitra is an Indian Marxist economist and politician. He has written for Economic and Political Weekly and contributes articles regularly to The Telegraph. He has also written short stories in Bengali.
His publications include China-Issues in Development, From the Ramparts, A Prattler's Tale: Recollections of a Contrary Marxist (which has also been published in Bengali as Apila Chapala).
- From The RampartsINR 450
A selection from Ashok Mitra`s famed `Calutta Diary` in the Economic and Political Weekly, these short essays chronicle the troubled times on the subcontinent from 1999 to 2003. Ashok Mitra`s colum...
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Saadat Hasan Manto
Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was among the greatest short story writers of the Indian subcontinent. He also wrote plays, and worked in the Bombay film industry as a writer before migrating t
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Rob Sewell
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Mervyn Matthews
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S. Y. Quraishi
Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi is an Indian civil servant who served as 17th Chief Election Commissioner of India. He was appointed as the CEC as the successor to Navin Chawla on 30 July 2010. He has
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Tejaswini Niranjana
Tejaswini Niranjana is currently Professor and Head, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and Visiting Professor with the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University
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Biswajit Dhar
Biswajit Dhar, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University and former Director-General, Research and Information System for Developing Countries, both in New Delhi.