Dilip M. Menon is Professor of Indian Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author of The Blindness of Insight and Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India, Malabar 1900-1948. He has translated Potheri Kunhambu's novel of 1893, Saraswativijayam, a classic, from the Malayalam into English.
Sibaji Bandyopadhyay is former professor of cultural studies, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, and former professor of comparative literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
P. Govinda Pillai (1926–2012) was a member of the State Committee of the CPI(M) and a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Kerala thrice. He was for many years the chief editor of Deshabhimani,
Narendra Achyut Dabholkar (1 November 1945 – 20 August 2013) was a medical doctor and rationalist from Maharashtra. To help eradicate superstition, he founded in 1989 the Maharashtra Andhashr
G.N. Devy, a literary scholar and cultural activist, writes in three languages – Marathi, Gujarati and English, and has received prestigious literary awards for his works in all three languag
Kevin Morgan is Professor of Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Manchester. He is the author of many books on labour movement history, including the Bolshevism and the British L
Staughton Lynd taught American history at Spelman College and Yale University. He was director of Freedom Schools in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer. An early leader of the movement against the
Antonio "Toni" Negri (born 1 August 1933) is an Italian Marxist sociologist and political philosopher, best known for his co-authorship of Empire, and secondarily for his work on Spinoza.
Eswaran Sridharan is Academic Director and Chief Executive, University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India, in Delhi. He is the author or editor of eleven books on Indian and int
