Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o won the Lotus Prize for Literature in 1973. He is the author of such celebrated novels as Weep Not, Child (1964), A Grain of Wheat (1967), Petals of Blood (1977) and Wizard of the Crow (2004). He faced harsh repression for his work, including a year in prison, where he wrote Devil on the Cross on prison-issue toilet paper.

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Bernard D'Mello

Bernard D'Mello is a senior journalist with the Economic & Political Weekly and a civil rights activist with the Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights, Mumbai.

Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch

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Angana P. Chatterji

Angana P. Chatterji is a feminist anthropologist and historian of the present. Her recent writings include the co-edited volume, Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia (Zubaan, 2012), L

Anthony And Sally Sampson

Anthony Sampson is a journalist and author of The Changing Anatomy of Britain. Sally Sampson is a magistrate in Britain's juvenile courts.

Ali Mir

Ali Mir is a professor at William Paterson University in the US, and is the co-author of Anthems of Resistance: A Celebration of Progressive Urdu Poetry.

Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray, has made 30 feature films and 5 major documentaries. He has won the Oscar for ‘Lifetime Achievement’ in films.

John Green

John Green is a journalist, and former documentary film-maker and trade union official. He is also the author of the book Ken Sprague, People's Artist, about a modern day Quixotic communist artist.

Sirpa Tenhunen

Sirpa Tenhunen is an academy research fellow at the Academy of Finland and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

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