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

Shubha Mudgat

Ellen Meiksins Wood

Ellen Meiksins Wood, for many years Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto, Canada, was an editor of the New Left Review from 1984 to 1992, and, co-editor of Monthly Review fr

Alexandre Bergamini

Omar Barghouti

Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian commentator and human rights activist. He is a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and t

Sabitri Roy

Sabitri Roy was the author of many novels and short stories, all focusing on the political and social issues of her time.

Jairus Banaji

Mythily Sivaraman

Mythily Sivaraman is an activist and a scholar. She was the national Vice President of the All India Democratic WomenÂ’s Association (AIDWA). She has been involved in village mobilization and so

Maurice Hindus

Maurice Hindus (1891-1969) was a Russian-born novelist and American authority on the Soviet Union. He was the author of several books on peasant life in Russia as well as his own autobiography, Gre

Sydney Gordon

Sydney Gordon, an editor and writer, later lived and worked in Berlin.

Aishwary Kumar

Aishwary Kumar is a professor of political philosophy and intellectual history in the Department of History of Consciousness at University of California-Santa Cruz, and Senior Fellow in Human Right

Murray E.G. Smith

Murray E.G. Smith is a Professor in the Department of Sociology, Brock University, Ontario, Canada.

Maria Montessori

Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori (1870-1952) was an Italian physician and educator. She is known most remembered for the Montessori method of educating young children used by many educators across