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Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman has taught at the University of California at Berkeley and is now a professor at Columbia University. She is the author of Scenes of Subjection and Lose Your Mother. She lives in Ne

Shrikant Verma

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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,

R.H. Tawney

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Suchetana Chattopadhyay

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Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, popularly known as K.A. Abbas, was a film director, novelist, screenwriter, and a journalist in Urdu, Hindi and English.

Anant Raje

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Ravi Ahuja

Dr. Ravi Ahuja works as the Professor of Modern Indian History in Centre for Modern Indian Studies at University of Göttingen.