Pankaj Sekhsaria
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Pankaj Sekhsaria
Pankaj Sekhsaria is a member of the environmental action group, Kalpavriksh where he works on issues of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and also edits the bi-monthly newsletter, the Protected Area Update. He is a freelance journalist, photographer and author, most recently, of 'Islands in flux - the Andaman and Nicobar Story' (HarperCollins India 2017) and 'The Last Wave – an island novel' (HarperCollins India 2014). He has authored/edited three other, non-fiction books, two of which are based in the A&N Islands He graduated as a mechanical engineer from the Pune University in 1993 and followed this with a Master’s Degree in Mass Communication from the Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, in 1998. He was awarded a doctorate in 2016 in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Maastricht University, Netherlands, for his thesis ‘Enculturing Innovation – Indian engagements with nanotechnology’. The thesis investigates scientific research and innovation practices in five nanotechnology laboratories in India and explores the societal and cultural influences on research and on innovation inside the laboratory. He is currently Senior Project Scientist, DST-Centre for Policy Research, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Delhi
- The Great Nicobar BetrayalINR 499
Dreams of mega development herald disaster for a highly vulnerable island. Great Nicobar Island is the southernmost and largest landmass in the chain that makes up the Nicobar Islands in the Bay of...
- The Last WaveINR 499
Ever the aimless drifter, Harish finds the anchor his life needs in a chance encounter with members of the ancient-and threatened-Jarawa community: the original people of the Andaman Islands and it...
- Islands in FluxINR 499
Pankaj Sekhsaria is the most consistent chronicler of contemporary issues in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and one of the best known. His writings on the environment, wildlife conservation, devel...
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Justice V. Gopala Gowda
Justice V. Gopala Gowda is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India, and a former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court.
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Sarmistha Dutta Gupta
Sarmistha Dutta Gupta, publisher of Ebong Alap books and an independent researcher, has also written Identities and Histories: Women's Writing and politics in Bengal (Stree, 2010).
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Greg Ruiters
Prof. Gregory Ruiters is Professor of Public Policy, School of Government, University of Western Cape. Co-Director Municipal Services Project. Previous Position: Director of Institute for Soci
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J.L.H.Keep
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Prakash Yashwant Ambedkar
Grandson of B. R. Ambedkar, Ambedkar Prakash Yashwant is an Indian politician who founded the Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh party in 1994. He was elected into the parliament from Akola constituency in
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Michael Denning
MICHAEL DENNING is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and the co-director of Yale’s Initiative on Labor and Culture. He is the author of Culture in t
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