Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto
Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was among the greatest short story writers of the Indian subcontinent. He also wrote plays, and worked in the Bombay film industry as a writer before migrating to Pakistan after the Partition.
The Armchair Revolutionary and Other Sketches
Manto wrote these words in the preface to Ganje Farishte, a collection of his sketches. They give us a sense of what to expect from him: the 'unvarnished' truth as seen through his unforgi...

José Carlos Mariátegui
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John Reed
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Sharmistha Saha
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Kasturi Basu
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Antonio Gramsci
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Dario Azzellini
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Richard York
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Eduardo Galeano
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Sudhanva Deshpande
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Gary A. Dymski
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Sucheta Majumdar
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Alpa Shah
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Richard Lewontin
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Prasanta Chakravarty
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Jesse Ross Knutson
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Charles Bettelheim
Charles Bettelheim (1913-2006) was a highly influential French Marxist economist and historian.
