T.M. Thomas Isaac

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Sitharamam Kakarala

Sitharamam Kakarala is Director, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore, and has been involved in a range of pedagogic and research activity at the intersection of law, socie

Subhabrata Bhattacharyya

Subhabrata Bhattacharyya is Head of the Department, Journalism and Mass Communication, and also teaches English at Surendranath College, Calcutta University.

Grace Lee Boggs

Grace Lee Boggs is a philosopher and activist based in Detroit. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she has chronicled her life in struggle in the autobiographical Living for Change. The James and

Eduardo Espinoza

Eduardo Espinoza is a medical doctor with a Master's in Public Health, Professor of Health Systems and Health Policy in the Master's in Public Health programme at the University of El Salvador and

Neeladri Bhattacharya

Neeladri Bhattacharya taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University for forty-one years, from where he retired in 2017 as Professor of History. He has been a Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, and has h

Anne Frank

Anne Frank was a German-born Dutch-Jewish diarist. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally

Shaswati Mazumdar

SHASWATI MAZUMDAR teaches German at the Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi. Her research has included a focus on the German writer Bertolt Brecht. She has edited a coll

Yogesh Maitreya

Yogesh Maitreya is a poet, translator, columnist, PhD scholar and publisher at Panther’s Paw Publication. He has translated work of fiction and non-fiction from Dalit literature. For his PhD, he

E.M.S. Namboodiripad

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K.B. Saxena

K.B. Saxena retired from the Indian Administrative Service in 2001. He is currently Professor of Social Justice and Governance in the Council for Social Development.

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

Jasodhara Bagchi

Jasodhara Bagchi was an independent scholar, formerly Chairperson of the West Bengal Commission for Women and Director, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University; also Professor of English, Jad

Eve Ensler

Eve Ensler is the Tony Award winning playwright, activist, and author of the theatrical Obie Award winning phenomenon, The Vagina Monologues, published in 48 languages and performed in over 140 cou

Govind Pansare

Govind Pansare (26 November 1933 – 20 February 2015) was one of Maharashtra's leading Communist leaders and public intellectuals. Starting out in the Rashtra Seva Dal, he joined the Communist