Kamran Asdar Ali is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He has conducted ethnographic research in Mexico, Egypt and Pa
Naseeruddin Shah is a theatre actor and director, founder of the theatre company Motley, and a film actor. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, three N
Maryse Condé was born in Guadeloupe, a French territory of the Caribbean. She has taught extensively in Africa and the United States and is now a professor emerita at Columbia University, where she c
