She has a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Arts degree in African History from Yale University. She was awarded a Hodder fellowship at Princeton University for the 2005-2006 academic year, and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University for the 2011-2012 academic year. In 2008, she received a MacArthur Fellowship.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria in 1977. She grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where her father was a professor and her mother was the first female Registrar. She studied medicine for a year at Nsukka and then left for the US at the age of 19 to continue her education on a different path. She graduated summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in Communication and Political Science.
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Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her ...
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Namita Waikar
Namita Waikar was born in Mumbai in 1961 and studied Biochemistry at the University of Mumbai. She is managing editor of the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) where she leads and writes for
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Shivaji Das
Shivaji Das is a travel writer and photographer who also works as a management consultant in Singapore.
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Prakash Karat
Prakash Karat is a member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He served as General Secretary of the party from 2005 to 2015. He is the author of Language and Nationa
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Rustom Bharucha
Rustom Bharucha is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.
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Samina Mishra
Samina Mishra is a New Delhi-based documentary filmmaker and writer.
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Periyar Lalai Singh
जन्म 1 सितम्बर, 1911 ई. को गाँव—कठारा, झींझक, जिला—कानपुर, उत्तर प्रदेश में हुआ थ