Deepa Bhasthi
![Deepa Bhasthi](https://mayday.leftword.com/pub/media/sakshay_author/Deepa-Bhasthi-.jpg)
Deepa Bhasthi
Deepa Bhasthi is a writer based in Bengaluru. She occasionally works on contemporary art projects. Her research interests are in the areas of sociolinguistics, land/landscape and food politics.
![](https://mayday.leftword.com/pub/static/frontend/leftword/luma_child/en_US/images/no-image.png)
Kalyani Thakur Charal
Kalyani Thakur Charal is a poet turned novelist and editor of Neer Rituparna. She has been appointed as a member of the Bangla Dalit Sahitya Academy.
![](https://mayday.leftword.com/pub/static/frontend/leftword/luma_child/en_US/images/no-image.png)
Gita Ramaswamy
Gita Ramaswamy is best known for her work with Hyderabad Book Trust that has published over four hundred titles since 1980. HBT pioneered low-cost books and translations from across the world—fro
![](https://mayday.leftword.com/pub/static/frontend/leftword/luma_child/en_US/images/no-image.png)
M. Sajjad Hassan
M. Sajjad Hassan is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Equity Studies, New Delhi.
![](https://mayday.leftword.com/pub/static/frontend/leftword/luma_child/en_US/images/no-image.png)
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
![](https://mayday.leftword.com/pub/static/frontend/leftword/luma_child/en_US/images/no-image.png)
Bani Basu
Bani Basu (b. 1940) is a Sahitya Akademi Award-winning author of contemporary Bengali fiction. A prolific writer, her novels have been regularly published by Desh, the premier literary journal of Ben![](https://mayday.leftword.com/pub/static/frontend/leftword/luma_child/en_US/images/no-image.png)
Vithal Rajan
Vithal Rajan was the founder and faculty member of the School of Peace Studies, Bradford University, UK. He has worked with numerous civil society organizations and NGOs. His books include The Lege
![](https://mayday.leftword.com/pub/media/sakshay_author/Qurratulain_Hyder.jpg)