Gail Omvedt

Gail Omvedt (born 2 August 1941) is an American-born Indian scholar who has written extensively on caste and Dalit politics. She is the author of Dalits and the Democratic Revolution (1994), Buddhism in India: Challenging Brahmanism and Caste (2003) and Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India (2004), among other books.

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Khalid Bashir Ahmad

Khalid Bashir Ahmad - Former Civil Servant, Kashmir Administrative Services

Srividya Natarajan

Srividya Natarajan is a dancer and the author of the novel, No Onions Nor Garlic, a comic satire on caste, and Bhimayana.

Samina Mishra

Samina Mishra is a New Delhi-based documentary filmmaker and writer.

M K Binodini Devi

MK Binodini Devi, a descendent of the Ningthouja dynasty, passed away in January 2011. A student of painting and sculpture at Shantiniketan’s Kala Bhavan from 1948 to 1950, she was greatly influence

Kanchana Natarajan

Kanchana Natarajan is a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi.

Ola Johansson

Ola Johansson is Associate Professor in Contemporary Performance Practice at the Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts (ResCen), Middlesex University (UK). He has specialized in

Paddy Whannel

Paddy Whannel (1922–1980) was founder and head of the Education Department at the British Film Institute, Associate Professor of Film at Northwestern University, an an influential figure in the deve

Kamla Bhasin

Kamla Bhasin worked with the Freedom From Hunger Campaign of the FAO for over twenty years, and is a well-known gender trainer. She has written extensively on participatory training; on women; and

Gail Omvedt

Gail Omvedt

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