Ola Johansson

Ola Johansson
Ola Johansson is Associate Professor in Contemporary Performance Practice at the Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts (ResCen), Middlesex University (UK). He has specialized in progressive and applied performance and has published two books: Community Theatre and AIDS (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Performance and Philosophy: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Performing Arts (VDM Verlag, 2008). Ola wrote the concept and manuscript for the production Politico (2014), was the artistic director for the production Beyond Vice (2013) and has exhibited artworks and produced a TV documentary.

Jhilmil Breckenridge
Jhilmil Breckenridge is a poet, writer and activist. She is the founder of Bhor Foundation. Her areas of work include mental health, domestic violence and trauma. She vociferously opposes forced ps

Teodor Shanin
Teodor Shanin (b. 1930) is an eminent British sociologist and a former Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. He was also instrumental in the establishment of the Moscow Schoo

Bulbul Sharma
Bulbul Sharma is an author and an artist. She has written three collections of short stories – My Sainted Aunts, The Perfect Woman and Anger of Aubergines, along with a full-length novel

Rajesh Sharma
Rajesh Sharma teaches in the Department of English, Punjabi University, Patiala. He also edits South Asian Ensemble.

Nandita Haksar
Nandita Haksar is a human rights lawyer, teacher, campaigner and writer.

Gita Ramaswamy
Gita Ramaswamy is best known for her work with Hyderabad Book Trust that has published over four hundred titles since 1980. HBT pioneered low-cost books and translations from across the world—fro

Moushumi Bhowmik
Moushumi Bhowmik is a writer, researcher and singer based in Kolkata.