Arvinder Ansari

Dr. Arvinder A. Ansari is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, specializing in Gender Studies, Minority Studies, and Sociology of Exclusion and Inclusion, Ethnici

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.

Rai Mohan Pal

Rai Mohan Pal, a well-known human rights activist, is editor of PUCL Bulletin and former editor of The Radical Humanist. Dr. Pal has lectured on human rights issues at universities in India and abr

John Dewey

John Dewey (1859-1952) was a highly influential American psychologist, philosopher and educator.

Irfan Habib

Irfan Habib is Professor Emeritus of History at the Aligarh Muslim University. He is the author of The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556–1707 (1963, revised edition 1999), An Atlas o

V. Gordon Childe

Vere Gordon Childe (14 April 1892 - 19 October 1957) is considered the father of modern archaeology. He specialised in the study of European prehistory. A vocal socialist, Childe accepted the socio

Jun-ichi Okabe

Jun-ichi Okabe is Professor, Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University and Professor, Faculty of Economics, Yokohama National University.

John Green

John Green is a journalist, and former documentary film-maker and trade union official. He is also the author of the book Ken Sprague, People's Artist, about a modern day Quixotic communist artist.

D.N. Jha

D.N. Jha is an acclaimed historian and the author of Early India: A Concise History (2004).

Ricardo Antunes

Ricardo Antunes is Professor of Sociology at University of Campinas (UNICAMP/Brazil). He was Visiting Research Fellow at Sussex University and his books and articles has been published in France, Ita

Abdul Rahman Siddiqi

Abdul Rahman Siddiqi is a retired Brigadier of the Pakistan Army. He was born and brought up in Delhi which he had to leave for Lahore during Partition. He now lives in Karachi.

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, logician, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes described as "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsk

Cathy Porter

Cathy Porter was born in Oxford in 1947, and grew up there. She spent a year in Poland before studying Russian and Czech at London University. Since then she has become deeply involved in the politica

R. Chudamani

R. Chudamani (1931–2010) is a prolific and important twentieth-century Tamil writer, painter, who also wrote in English. She wrote over five hundred short stories, and several novellas, including

Michael Lowy

Michael Löwy (born 1938, Brazil) is a French Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He is emeritus research director in social sciences at the CNRS (French National Center of Scientifi

Ruth Rosengarten

Ruth Rosengarten is an artist and writer. She lives and works in England. She received her PhD in art history at the Courtauld Institute in London, and has lectured in South Africa, Portugal and En