Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, or Lula, as he is popularly known, was the 35th President of Brazil.
An ultra-right fanatic is today the President of Brazil. This needn't have come to pass.
After serving as president of Brazil from 2003 to 2011, and on the verge of starting his candidacy f...
Ritu Menon
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Charles Bettelheim
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Qurratulain Hyder
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Eduardo Galeano
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Anand Teltumbde
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Tariq Ali
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Edward Said
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Asoke Bhattacharya
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Gulzar
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Immanuel Wallerstein
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Madhu Trivedi
Madhu Trivedi teaches history in the School of Open Learning, University of Delhi. She is the author of The Making of the Awadh Culture. She has published several research articles on a variety of
Pinarayi Vijayan
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Leo Panitch
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Kamal Nayan Kabra
Kamal Nayan Kabra (1941) Professor of Economics (1980-2003), Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi and Malcolm S. Adiseshiah Chair Professor (2010-17), Institute of Social Sciences
Revati Laul
Revati Laul is an independent journalist and film-maker. She is the author of The Anatomy of Hate (2018). The book is the first-ever account of the perpetrators of the 2002 pogrom against Muslims t
Saidiya Hartman
Saidiya Hartman has taught at the University of California at Berkeley and is now a professor at Columbia University. She is the author of Scenes of Subjection and Lose Your Mother. She lives in Ne
