M.R. Renukumar is a poet, painter and translator. With an M.Phil. in economics, his day job is with the State Audit Department in Kottayam. He has published three collections of poetry: Keninilangail (In marshy lands, 2005), Veshakkaya (The fruit of knowledge, 2007) and Pachakkuppi (Green bottle, 2011). His other works include Naalaam classile varaal (Snakehead fish in the fourth standard, 2008), Poykayil Yohannan (2009, biography of the activist, poet and socio-religious reformer of the same name), and a book of essays and reminiscences, Muzhusooryanaakaanulla shramangal (Attempts to be a full-blown sun, 2013). He has translated the graphic biography of B.R. Ambedkar, Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability, from English into Malayalam (2014).
Urvashi Butalia is a publisher and writer. Co-founder of Kali for Women, India’s first feminist publisher, and now director of Zubaan, she is also the author of the award-winning oral hi
Chris Blackmore, a Senior Lecturer in Systems and Environment at The Open University. She is currently a member of the management team for the OU-wide Ethics Centre. Her main research area, in which s
Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages. He lives in I
Shahrzad Mojab is a Professor at the University of Toronto. Her essay draws from her introduction to Marxism and Feminism, a 2015 book that she edited.
Ashley Montagu is a writer, editor, and anthropologist. He was born in London, England, on June 28, 1905. Montagu studied psychology and anthropology at the University of London and the University
