Grain
Grain
Over the past twenty-five years, GRAIN, an international NGO has worked with social movements and organizations around the world to defend local food systems and cultures from the advance of industrial agriculture. But another important part of its work has involved connecting this analysis of the food system to larger issues affecting the planet and linking peoples' struggles situated within the food system to those happening in other areas. Climate change is one important example of this.
Bhagwan Das
Bhagwan Das (1927–2010) was an Ambedkarite and a historian of the dalit movement. A meeting with Ambedkar in Shimla, in 1943, defined the trajectory of his life leading to his single-minded pursui
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
Rajni Kothari
Rajni Kothari is one of the most remarkable intellectuals independent India has produced. An academic who always insisted on living a life of the mind, Kothari’s story is the story of Indian politic
Vasant Kaiwar
Vasant Kaiwar is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University, North Carolina, USA. He is the author of The Postcolonial Orient, The Politi
Rosy Thomas
Rosy Thomas, well-known Malayalam writer and translator, her best-known work – Ivan Ente Priya C J.Her other prominent works include Urangunna Simham (The Sleeping Lion), a memoir of her father,
Aniket Jaaware
Aniket Jaaware was one of the foremost intellectuals in the country and a much-loved teacher of English Literature. His teaching interests were broad ranging. Former students in Pune University still
Sam Gindin
Sam Gindin holds the Packer Chair in Social Justice in the Department of Political Science at York University, Toronto.
Dario Azzellini
Dario Azzellini (b. 1967) is an author, filmmaker and assistant professor at Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria.
Immanuel Ness
Immanuel Ness (b. 1958) is an activist and scholar who teaches at the Brooklyn College of the City University, New York.
N.D. Rajkumar
N.D. Rajkumar is a poet and musician who has published four volumes of poetry in Tamil. Till 2014, he used to work as a daily wage labourer in the Railway Mail Service in Nagercoil, and now teaches m
A.L. Morton
Arthur Leslie Morton (1903-87) was a British Marxist historian.
