Rakhshanda Jalil
Rakhshanda Jalil
Dr Rakhshanda Jalil (born 21 July 1963) is a well known Indian writer, critic and literary historian. She is best known for the much-acclaimed book on Delhi's lesser-known monuments called Invisible City: The hidden Monuments of India and a well-received collection of short stories, called Release & Other Stories (Harper Collins, 2011). Her Ph.D. on the Progressive Writers' Movement as Reflected in Urdu Literature has been published by Oxford University Press as Liking Progress, Loving Change (2014). Rakhshanda Jalil runs an organization called Hindustani Awaaz, devoted to the popularization of Hindi-Urdu literature and culture.
Qurratulain Hyder & The River of Fire
Born with an impeccable literary lineage – her father was Sajjad Hyder Yildirim and her mother Nazre Sajjad Hyder, both early and vigorous proponents of Urdu fiction – Qurratulain ...
Khwaja Abdul Qadir
Very little is known about the two secretaries of the embassy sent by Tipu Sultan to Constantinople, Khwaja Abdul Qadir, who wrote the Waqai-i Manazil-i Rum, and Sayyid Jafar.
Ailsa M. Watkinson
Ailsa M. Watkinson is a Professor in the Faculty of Social Work, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Seema Kazi
Seema Kazi has been educated in India, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. She has served on the board of directors of the Association for Advocacy and Legal Initiatives, a feminist legal advo
Kenneth E. Read
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Anna Bostock
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Eugenia Vanina
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Deeptha Achar
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Ajith Pillai
Ajith Pillai is an Indian journalist with a career spanning over 28 years. He has reported crimes, political fluctuations, social changes and more, ranging all over India in places such as Bombay,
Eric Toussaint
Eric Toussaint is a historian and political scientist. Several of his books have been published in more than a dozen languages and have become reference works on questions of debt and the internati
Damien Millet
Damien Millet teaches mathematics and is a spokesperson for CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt) France. He is the author of L Afrique sans dette, and co-author with Eric Toussai
Derek Boothman
Derek Boothman is an Adjunct Professor, School of foreign Languages and Literature, Translation and Interpreting, University of Bologna.
Terence J. Byres
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Triveni Goswami Mathur
Dr. Triveni Goswami Mathur is a journalist and academician who currently serves as Director at the Symbiosis School of Media and Communication, Bengaluru.
Roksana Badruddoja
Roksana Badruddoja is a Bangladeshi-American writer and a professor of Sociology at Manhattan College, New York City, United States. She is the author of Eyes of the Storms: The Voices of South Asi
Henry D. Thoreau
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Someswar Bhowmik
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Vasan Moon
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Madhusree Dutta
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Aloysius Irudayam S.J.
Aloysius Irudayam S.J. is programme director of the Research, Advocacy, and Human Rights Education Department, Institute of Development Education, Action and Studies, Tamil Nadu.
Louis Dumont
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Annie Zaidi
Annie Zaidi is a writer and journalist who has worked with newspapers and magazines such as Mid-Day and Frontline. She is the author of the acclaimed book of essays Known Turf: Bantering with Bandi
Anil Menon
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K.N. Panikkar
K.N. Panikkar is among the foremost historians of modern India. His books include Against Lord and State: Religion and Peasant Uprisings in Malabar; Culture and Consciousness in Modern India; Cultu
Anthony DiMaggio
Anthony DiMaggio is an assistant professor of political science at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of Selling War, Selling Hope: Presidential Rhetoric, the News Media, and U.
Vibhavari Shirurkar
Malatibai Bedekar, who used the pen name Vibhavari Shirurkar, was born Balutai Anant Khare in 1905. She graduated from Karve University (now S.N.D.T.) at seventeen and later undertook scholarly res
Rana Ayyub
Rana Ayyub is a former editor with Tehelka and is presently an independent journalist and writer based between Mumbai and Delhi. Her body of investigative and political reports spanning a deca
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Lucinda Ramberg
Lucinda Ramberg is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of the monograph, Given to the Goddess: South Indian Deva
Sharmila Sreekumar
Sharmila Sreekumar is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay.
William Styron
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Abdul Rahman Siddiqi
Abdul Rahman Siddiqi is a retired Brigadier of the Pakistan Army. He was born and brought up in Delhi which he had to leave for Lahore during Partition. He now lives in Karachi.
Smriti Ravindra
Smriti Ravindra is a writer who "writes what she can, fiction, children's stories, newspaper columns, poetry".
Sana Das
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Emir Sader
Emir Sader is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of São Paolo and Director of the Latin American Social Science Research Council (CLACSO). He is the author of numerous
Sampat Kale
Sampat Kale is Assistant Professor at the School of Rural DEvelopment, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Tuljapur. He was visiting faculty a Karachi, Pakistan and Stockholm, Sweden.
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Glenda Leeming
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Gita Chadha
Gita Chadha is a faculty member at the Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai.
Maurice Dobb
Maurice Dobb (1900-76) was one of the most important Marxian economists of the 20th century.
Arindam Dutta
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Doug Lorimer
Doug Lorimer is a member of the Revolutionary Socialist Party of Australia.
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M.M. Kalburgi
Malleshappa Madivalappa Kalburgi (28 November 1938 – 30 August 2015) was a scholar of Vachana literature (Kannada literature from the 11th and 12th centuries CE) and served as Vice-Chancellor
Aijaz Ahmad
Aijaz Ahmad is one of India's best-known Marxist scholars. His best-known books include In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, Lineages of the Present: Ideological and Political Geneal
Harsh Mander
Harsh Mander, 56, social worker and writer, is a former civil servant. He has taught at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; St Stephen's College, Delhi; California Institute of Integral
Franco Berardi
Franco Berardi, aka "Bifo," founder of the famous "Radio Alice" in Bologna and an important figure of the Italian Autonomia Movement, is a writer, media theorist, and media activist. He currently t
Kirsty Murray
Kirsty Murray (born 21 November 1960) is an Australian author who writes children's fiction.
