Jothibai Pariyadath, the transcriber of Mayilamma: Oru Jeevitham, is an acclaimed Malayalam poet, writer and translator. She published her first poetry collection, Pesamadantha, in 2009, and has translated the poems of Vladimir Mayakovsky into Malayalam as Mayakovskyude Kavithakal (2012). She received the Coimbatore Kerala Cultural Centre’s literary prize for 2012. Her blog, Kavyam Sugeyam, featuring her recitations of more than five hundred Malayalam poems, is hugely popular.
Benjamin Zachariah is a Research Fellow at the Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University. He is the author of Developing India: An Intellectual and Social Histor
Premchand (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936) is among the most widely read authors in Hindi and Urdu even today. He wrote many novels, such as Sevasadan, Premashram, Rangbhumi, Nirmala, Gaban, Karm
Wiebke Keim is a German sociologist at CRNS in Strasbourg, France, and coordinates, through the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany, a major research programme on circulating knowledge b
Rustam Singh (b. 1955) is a philosopher and translator. He has in the past been associated with various institutions such as Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Indian Institute of Advanc
Emiliano López is an economist and Assistant Professor at the University of La Plata. He also works as a researcher for National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET, Buenos Aires,
