Githa Hariharan

Githa Hariharan's work includes novels, short stories, essays, newspaper articles and columns. Her first novel – The Thousand Faces of Night – won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize i

K. Savitri Ammal

Hailing from an illustrious family, K. Savitri Ammal (1898-1992) was a well-known Tamil writer. With a good command over both Sanskrit and English, she was a literary scholar, an essayist and a short

R.H. Tawney

Richard Henry Tawney (1880-1962), born in Calcutta, was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford, of which he was elected a fellow in 1918. During World War I, he was severely wounded d

Asoke Bhattacharya

Asoke Bhattacharya was born in Jangipur of West Bengal, India on 26 November 1950 and was brought up in Calcutta. He first wrote poems in English in 1993 but didn't publish them until 2012. Asoke t

Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad is the Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Darker Nations: A Biography of the Short-Lived T

Uma Chakravarti

Uma Chakravarti is a feminist historian who taught at Miranda House, University of Delhi, from where she took early retirement in 1998. She has been associated with the women’s movement and the move

Alexandre Bergamini

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Krishna Sobti

Krishna Sobti, one of the most creative and engaging aspects of Krishna Sobti's writings is her lively language. Her contribution to Hindi is immense. She has not only added a multitude of new words a

Horace Bancroft Davis

Horace Bancroft Davis was trained as a labour economist at Harvard and Columbia, and taught social science at many different institutions of higher education in the United States. He worked as a la

Ismat Chughtai

ISMAT CHUGHTAI is the author of several collections of short stories, three novellas, a novel, The Crooked Line, a collection of reminiscences and essays, My Friend, My Enemy, and a memoir, Kaghazi

Utsa Patnaik

UTSA PATNAIK retired as Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has written extensively on political economy, capitalism