P. Govinda Pillai
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P. Govinda Pillai
P. Govinda Pillai (b. 1926) was born in Perumbavoor in the Ernakulam district of Kerala. Leaping into the country’s freedom movement during his student days, Pillai graduated from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai. He became a full-time political, social and cultural activist after his student life and was elected four times to the Kerala State Legislature, first as a representative of the Communist Party of India and, later, the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was the Chief Editor of Desabhimani, the CPI (M)’s organ in Malayalam, for more than two decades. He has headed many institutions including the Kerala State Film Corporation, Centre for Imaging Technology, Kerala State Press Akademi etc. He is the author of about 35 books based on a range of subjects including Marxist aesthetics, literature and culture, social movements and science.
- The Bhakti MovementINR 395
This is a comprehensive survey of the Bhakti Movement as it sprang in South India to spread across the subcontinent in independent and multifarious manifestations yet marked with amazing commonalit...
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Chnadrika Balan
Chnadrika Balan is a winner of two awards by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi. She has written over 22 books in Malayalam under the pen-name Chandramati.![](https://mayday.leftword.com/pub/static/frontend/leftword/luma_child/en_US/images/no-image.png)
Brahma Prakash
Brahma Prakash teaches at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the ‘Folk Performance’ in India (
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Ramnika Gupta
Ramnika Gupta is founder and President of Ramnika Foundation, member of the CPI(M), a tribal rights champion, former trade union leader, politician, writer and editor. She is the coordinator of the
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Mohini Anjum
Mohini Anjum is the former Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, whose career in teaching and research spanned more than 36 years at Delhi School of Economic
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Vishwanath Pandey
Dr. Vishwanath Pandey is a Ph.D. in Sociology and graduate of Law and Journalism. An author and columnist, he is well known in the corporate and business communication world. He has been the Office
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Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Ananya Jahanara Kabir is Professor of English Literature at King’s College, London. She has written numerous articles in the fields of literary and cultural criticism, the politics of visual repr
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Bruce Grindal
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