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Manoranjan Mohanty is Chairperson, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi. He is editor of Social Change and a former editor
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Niaz Zaman is Professor of English, University of Dhaka. Her publications include the prize-winning study, A Divided Legacy: The Partition in Selected Novels of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh; the no
Ajith Pillai is an Indian journalist with a career spanning over 28 years. He has reported crimes, political fluctuations, social changes and more, ranging all over India in places such as Bombay,
