Astha Singla

Astha Singla is a Research Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, JNU. Her main research interests cover various aspects of labour economics (youth labour markets, disadvantag

Karl Korsch

Karl Korsch (1886-1961) was a prominent German Marxist theorist, writer, and revolutionary. He was a member of the German Communist Party until the 1920s, and went into exile in 1933, eventually re

B.R. Ambedkar

Born into an ‘untouchable’ family, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) was one of India’s most radical thinkers. A brilliant student, he earned doctorates in economics from both Co

Akshay Khanna

Akshay Khanna is a Social Anthropologist, political activist, theatre practitioner and amateur chef based in New Delhi. 

Richard York

Richard York is a professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, United States. He is co-editor of the journal Organization & Environment.

Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy is a novelist, activist and a world citizen. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things. Since then, she has concentrated her writing on political is

Jun-ichi Okabe

Jun-ichi Okabe is Professor, Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University and Professor, Faculty of Economics, Yokohama National University.

Mrityunjay Tripathi

Mrityunjay Tripathi is assistant professor in the Hindi programme at Ambedkar University Delhi. He has translated the autobiography of Mallikarjun Mansur into Hindi (Ras yatra), and a Hindi transla

N.D. Rajkumar

N.D. Rajkumar is a poet and musician who has published four volumes of poetry in Tamil. Till 2014, he used to work as a daily wage labourer in the Railway Mail Service in Nagercoil, and now teaches m

Daniel Guerin

Daniel Guerin (1904-88) was a French anarchist and author.

Andre Gunder Frank

Andre Gunder Frank (1929-2005) was a German-American economist and historian. He held many teaching appointments in various universities across the world and authored over 40 books in his lifetime.

Suvira Jaiswal

Suvira Jaiswal is former Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She did her M.A. in History from Allahabad University and Ph.D. from Patna University under the supervi

Sarah Pinto

Sarah Pinto is Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, and author of Where There is no Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India (2008), and Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contempor

Kamal Dev Pall

Kamal Dev Pall was born on August 9, 1957 in Hoshiarpur, Punjab. Today, he resides in the United State of America. He earned his MA degree in Punjab from Punjab University. He has published two boo

Grace Lee Boggs

Grace Lee Boggs is a philosopher and activist based in Detroit. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she has chronicled her life in struggle in the autobiographical Living for Change. The James and

Uma Chakravarti

Uma Chakravarti is a feminist historian who taught at Miranda House, University of Delhi, from where she took early retirement in 1998. She has been associated with the women’s movement and the move

Rimli Bhattacharya

Rimli Bhattacharya trained in Comparative Literature at Jadavpur and Brown Universities. She has published on gender and performance, primary education, children’s literature and expressive forms

Githa Hariharan

Githa Hariharan's work includes novels, short stories, essays, newspaper articles and columns. Her first novel – The Thousand Faces of Night – won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize i

Shahrzad Mojab

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.