Centre for Equity Studies

Pinarayi Vijayan

Pinarayi Vijayan (born 1945) is the Chief Minister of Kerala. He served as Minister of Electric Power and Co-operation from 1996 to 1998. He joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 1964. H

Paris Yeros

Paris Yeros is professor of international economics and coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in World Political Economy at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), São Paulo, Brazil. He has been

Bikram Das

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o won the Lotus Prize for Literature in 1973. He is the author of such celebrated novels as Weep Not, Child (1964), A Grain of Wheat (1967), Petals of Blood (1977) and Wizard of

S. Irfan Habib & Dhruv Raina

Shahnaz Rouse

Shahnaz Rouse teaches Sociology at Sarah Lawrence College, New York. She is the author of various articles on women, religion, nationalism and the State which have been published in South Asia, the

Rita Kothari

Rita Kothari (born 30 July 1969) is an author and translator who writes in both Gujarati and English. She teaches at St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad. Her publications on literary sociology of Gujar

Cornel West

Cornel West (born 2 June 1953) is an American philosopher, political activist and preeminent public intellectual. He is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and Prof