Shad Naved
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 Ghazal.
- The Hindi CanonINR 595
This book, first published in 2015 in Hindi, was acclaimed as one of the first critical studies on the processes of canonization (pratimanikaran) in Hindi. Its use of the English term ‘c...
Ranjit Lal
Ranjit Lal has written around thirty books for children and adults – and adults who are children. His books include The Crow Chronicles, The Life and Times of Altu Faltu, Smitten, The Battle
Eleanor Zelliot
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
Shampa Banerjee
SHAMPA BANERJEE is a well-known translator of Bengali works. She lives and works in the US.
Clarinda Still
Clarinda Still is a social anthropologist and a postdoctoral researcher in the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme at the University of Oxford. Her work has mainly focused on Dalits in Andhr
Ali Cobby Eckermann
Ali Cobby Eckermann is a poet and writer. She identifies herself with her Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha family from the North-West desert country of South Australia. Her works include little bit long tim
Arvind Narrain
Arvind Narrain is an advocate and founder member of the Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. He is the author of Queer: Despised Sexuality, Law and Social Change and co-editor of Because I Have a Voic
Ritu Menon
Ritu Menon co-founded Kali for Women, India’s first feminist press, in 1984, and is founder-director of Women Unlimited, an associate of KfW. She is the author of several books, among them the gr