Sandeep Mertia

Ralph Russell

Ralph Russell was the most well known authority on Urdu literature outside South Asia. His work on Urdu poetry in the late Mughal era, and his translation of Ghalib's poetry and prose is studied al

Kiran Nagarkar

Kiran Nagarkar (born 1942) is a novelist and playwright. He is the author of Ravan & Eddie (1995) and Cuckold (1997) for which he won the Sahitya Akademi Award.

Sukhbir Choudhary

Shad Naved

Shad Naved teaches in the Comparative Literature programme, School of Letters, Ambedkar University Delhi. He is currently working on a monograph, Against Vernacularity: Historical Eros in the Urdu

Joel Andreas

Rashmi Ruth Devadasan

Michael Lowy

Michael Löwy (born 1938, Brazil) is a French Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. He is emeritus research director in social sciences at the CNRS (French National Center of Scientifi

Rana Safvi

Rana Safvi is an author and historian with a passion for culture and heritage. She is the founder and moderator of the #shair platform on Twitter, credited with reviving popular interest in Ur