Gargi Chakravartty

Gulzar

Gulzar, is a poet above all things. His style marks a sensitivity that is best reflected in his writing and treatment of films. He is one of those sensitive people whose work is laced with the lyri

Gautam Bhatia

Renuka Ray

Renuka Ray became a Gandhian and a nationalist at sixteen when she met Mahatma Gandhi at the house of her uncle, Chittaranjan Das, in Calcutta. Aside from her political career, she was a well-known

Joseph P. Morray

Wandana Sonalkar

Wandana Sonalkar is a retired Professor of Women's Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

Dharamvir Bharati

Novelist, poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, journalist, Dharamvir Bharati was a colossus of the Hindi literary world. Born in Allahabad, he studied Hindi at Allahabad University and wen

Eugen Varga

Eugen Samuilovich "Jenő" Varga (1879-1964) was a Marxian economist in the erstwhile Soviet Union.

Sulekha Sanyal

Sulekha Sanyal was born in 1928 in an impoverished family that had once been indigo planters. She became a communist while a student. At thirty-five she died of leukemia, leaving a number of short