Michelle Williams

is Associate Professor at the Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa and is the Chairperson of the Global Labour University (GLU) Programme, also at Wits. Her publications include The Roo

Mythily Sivaraman

Mythily Sivaraman is an activist and a scholar. She was the national Vice President of the All India Democratic WomenÂ’s Association (AIDWA). She has been involved in village mobilization and so

Madhu Trivedi

Madhu Trivedi teaches history in the School of Open Learning, University of Delhi. She is the author of The Making of the Awadh Culture. She has published several research articles on a variety of

Shujaat Bukhari

Shujaat Bukhari (1968-2018) was a journalist based in Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir). He was the Srinagar correspondent for Frontline and was the editor of Rising Kashmir. Between 1997 and 2012, he w

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

K.A. Manikumar

K.A. Manikumar retired as Professor of History, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli. He is the author of Vellore Revolt, 1806 (Allied Publishers & VIT University, 2007) and A Colonia

Tamas Krausz

Tamás Krausz is Professor of Russian History at the Eötvös Loránd Univesity of Sciences in Budapest, and Head of the Department of Eastern European Studies. One of the best-

Antonio A. Santucci

Antonio A. Santucci (2 October 1949 - 27 February 2004) was the Director of the Center for Gramscian Studies at the Istituto Gramsci in Rome. He taught political science at various universities in

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

Marc Bloch

Marc Bloch was a mediaeval historian, University Professor and French Army officer. Bloch was a founder of the Annales School, best known for his pioneering study French Rural History and his posth

John S. Saul

A professor emeritus of political science at York University, Toronto, John Saul has had a long and distinguished career as writer, teacher and activist in both Canada and southern Africa. As part

JoAnn Jaffe

JoAnn Jaffe is a Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Studies, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Pranjal

Pranjal is a journalist and activist who works with Newsclick. He has been associated with the student movement for a long time.

P.M.S. Grewal

P.M.S. Grewal is Secretary, Delhi State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

K.M. Seethi

K.M. Seethi is Professor and Director of the School of International Relations and Politics (SIRP) and former Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU), Kerala.

Manjit Kumar

Manjit Kumar has a degree in physics and philosophy. He is deputy editor of the journal Paradigm, and a tutor at the City Literary Institute, London.

G.P. Deshpande

G.P. DESHPANDE (1938-2013) retired as Professor of Chinese Studies at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of The World of Ideas in Modern M

Kamala Visweswaran

Kamala Visweswaran is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California San Diego. She is the author of Un/Common Cultures and Fictions of Feminist Ethnography.

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, logician, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes described as "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsk

Sana Das

Sana Das is presently the director of a journalism course in Bangalore called 'Archaeology of the Media' run by Educational Trust, Samvada, and is continuing a Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Tech