Robyn Marsack is a writer, translator and academic from New Zealand. She is the author of The Cave of Making (1982), and an award-winning translator of Nicolas Bouvier's The Scorpion-Fish (1988).
Kavita Panjabi is professor, department of Comparative Literature and Co-ordinator, Centre for Studies in Latin American Literatures and Cultures, Jadavpur University.
Franz Fühmann (1922–84) was one of modern Germany's most fascinating literary figures, and the author of dozens of novels, short stories, essay, poems, ballets and children's books. Fühmann's The
Eleanor Zelliot (1926-2016), in the 1960s, pioneered the study of the Dalit movement in India. She was Laird Bell Professor of History (1969-97) at Carleton College, Minnesota. She has written over
Vijay Kumar Thakur, Professor of History, Patna University, was the author of Urbanisation in Ancient India (1981), Historiography of Indian Feudalism (1989) and Social Dimensions of Technology: Iron
Aneesh Pradhan had a liberal and
encouraging familial upbringing, which was coupled with an intensive period of study under the illustrious tabla maestro Nikhil Ghosh. His training with this veritabl
Fred Magdoff is Emeritus Professor of Plant and Soil Science at the University of Vermont, Burlington. He has authored several books on subjects ranging from soil science to economics.
