Claude Levi-Strauss (1908–2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology. He authored several books, and has been called, alongside James George Frazer and Franz Boas, the "father of modern anthropology".
Kumari Jayawardena is the author of The Rise of the Labour Movement in Ceylon; Ethnic and Class Conflict in Sri Lanka; Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World; The White Woman’s Other Bur
Molly Daniels Ramanujan is the author of Yellow Fish, translated into Kannada by her husband, A.K. Ramanujan, and published as Haladi Meenu. She has also written A City of Children and Other Storie
Pankaj Mishra is an award-winning essayist, travel writer and novelist. He is the author of The Romantics (1999). His most recent book is Age of Anger: A History of the Present (2017).