Carlos Martinez
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Carlos Martinez
Carlos Martinez is an activist, writer and musician based in London. He runs the political history blog Invent the Future. His major interests are the history of 'actually existing socialism' and strategies for challenging imperialism and building socialism in the 21st century.
- The End of the BeginningINR 250
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) – a workers' and peasants' state – lasted a mere seventy years. It has been gone for a quarter of a century. Existing socialist states face many o...
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Ankur Goswami
जेएनयू में शोधरत। क्रांतिकारियों पर नियमित लेखन। छात्र आंदोलनों से जुड़ा
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Felix Padel
Felix Padel is an anthropologist and a Professor of Rural Management at the Indian Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur. He is the author of Sacrificing People: Invasions of a Tribal Lan
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Sarmistha Dutta Gupta
Sarmistha Dutta Gupta, publisher of Ebong Alap books and an independent researcher, has also written Identities and Histories: Women's Writing and politics in Bengal (Stree, 2010).
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Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky is the author of the bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels, including, Fire Sale and Blacklist. Winner of many awards, including the Cartier Diamond Dagger award for lifetime achieveme
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Rohit K. Dasgupta
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Manoj A. Menon
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Shirin Kudchedkar
Shirin Kudchedkar, a distinguished feminist critic who died in 2009. She edited the Gujarati section of Women Writing in India, 2 vols., edited by Susie Tharu and K. Lalita
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Angana P. Chatterji
Angana P. Chatterji is a feminist anthropologist and historian of the present. Her recent writings include the co-edited volume, Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia (Zubaan, 2012), L