Neetha N.
Neetha N.
Neetha N. is Professor and Acting Director at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS), New Delhi. Before joining CWDS, she was Associate Fellow and Coordinator, Centre for Gender and Labour, at the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, NOIDA. Her core themes of research interest are employment and female labour migration, specifically covering areas such as the changing dimensions of women’s employment, gender statistics, the socio-political and economic dimensions of care work, and migration for domestic work. She is one of the lead authors of the chapter on ‘Pluralization of Families’ in the Report of the International Panel on Social Progress, 2018.
Paid domestic work is historically as well as culturally embedded, and exhibits considerable social and regional inequalities. In many ways, domestic workers share commonalities with unpaid housewi...
Urmila Pawar
Urmila Pawar is a distinguished writer of fiction in Marathi. Her collection of short stories, Sahava Bot and Chauthi Bhint, are particularly well known. Her autobiography, Aaydan, received major a
Jibanananda Das
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Rahul Mahajan
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Ravi Nair
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Richard Levins
Richard Levins is John Rock Professor of Population Sciences, Department of Population and International Health at Harvard University, Boston, MA. He is the author, along with Richard Lewontin, of
Jayati Ghosh
Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has authored and co-edited several books and more than 120 scholarly articles. She is Executive Secretary of In
Maurice Hindus
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John Eric Marot
John Eric Marot, Ph.D., teaches history at Keimyung University in Korea. He has published many articles on Russian and Soviet history.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
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Asa Briggs
Asa Briggs is the author of many books, including Victorian Cities, A Social History of England, and a five-volume series on the history of the BBC.
Franco Berardi
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Samar Bosu Mullick
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Burhan Sönmez
Burhan Sönmez is a novelist. He has published Kuzey (2009), Masumlar (2011), Istanbul Istanbul (2015) and translated William Blake into Turkish. He won the Disturbing the Peace award from the
E.V. Ilyenkov
Evald Vassilievich Ilyenkov (1924-79) was a Marxist philosopher in the erstwhile Soviet Union.
Manoranjan Mohanty
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
