Justice K. Chandru
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Justice K. Chandru
JUSTICE K. CHANDRU is an advocate and former judge of Madras High Court. He disposed of 96,000 cases during his tenure as a Judge. A 1993 case that Chandru argued as a lawyer is the subject of the hit Tamil film Jai Bhim (2021, dir. T.J. Gnanavel), in which his character is played by the actor Suriya. He writes in Tamil and English, and his previous book was the bestselling Listen to My Case!: When Women Approach the Courts of Tamil Nadu (LeftWord, 2021).
- Listen to My Case!$15
Justice K. Chandru, former judge of the Madras High Court, heard many cases in his illustrious career and passed landmark judgments on them – over 54,000 in fact. Among these are rulings on commo...
- Jai Bhim$13
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was endowed with a sense of being outraged. For someone steeped in the learning and practice of law, the capacity to feel outraged does something very distinct, it becomes a ...
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Ranjit Lal
Ranjit Lal has written around thirty books for children and adults – and adults who are children. His books include The Crow Chronicles, The Life and Times of Altu Faltu, Smitten, The Battle
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V. Geetha
V. Geetha writes in Tamil and in English on history, culture and gender. She has co-authored with S.V. Rajadurai, Towards a Non-Brahmin Millennium: From Iyothee Thass to Periyar (Samya, rev. ed. 20
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E.P. Thompson
Edward Palmer Thompson was an English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. He is probably best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements in the late 18th an
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David Renton
Dave Renton teaches History at Edge Hill College, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England.
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Prasanta Chakravarty
Prasanta Chakravarty is Associate Professor of English at the University of Delhi. He is also the editor of the web-journal humanitiesunderground.
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T. M. Krishna
As a vocalist in the Karnatik tradition, Thodur Madabusi Krishna's musicality eludes standard analyses. Uncommon in his rendition of music and original in his interpretation of it, Krishna is at once![](https://mayday.leftword.com/pub/static/frontend/leftword/luma_child/en_US/images/no-image.png)
Satish Chopra
Satish Chopra (b. 1942 in Lahore, now in Pakistan) M.A. from University of Delhi (1965), served the Central Bank of India for 37 years in different managerial capacities. An ardent lover of music a