Ruth First
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Ruth First
- Selected WritingsINR 150
Ruth First, born in 1925, held multiple roles during the struggles of her time as a communist militant, journalist, researcher and leading intellectual in South Africa.
Until her assassinat...
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Eric Lemay
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Peter Nettl
Peter Nettl, author of Political Mobilization: A Sociological Analysis of Methods and Concepts (1963) and The Soviet Achievement (1967), was, at the time of his tragic death in an air crash in Octo
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Sukumar Muralidharan
Sukumar Muralidharan teaches at the school of journalism, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat. Over a career spanning three decades in the print media, he has worked on areas of science and technol![](https://mayday.leftword.com/pub/media/sakshay_author/s-y-quraishi-pl85j19yqe6hfd1hesxi6pwc1679ooaolvub2piu94.png)
S. Y. Quraishi
Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi is an Indian civil servant who served as 17th Chief Election Commissioner of India. He was appointed as the CEC as the successor to Navin Chawla on 30 July 2010. He has
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Chandrava Charkravarty
Chandrava Charkravarty is Professor, Department of English, West Bengal State University; her interests are the complex connections between gender construction, identity and nation-building in various![](https://mayday.leftword.com/pub/static/frontend/leftword/luma_child/en_US/images/no-image.png)
Pothik Ghosh
Pothik Ghosh was educated in Allahabad and has worked as a professional journalist in Calcutta, Lucknow and Delhi. Active with various Left groups, he is currently based in Delhi and is one of the
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Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) was a sociologist, anthropologist, philosopher, and renowned public intellectual.