Sharankumar Limbale Marathi is a Marathi language author, poet and literary critic. He has penned more than 40 books but is best known for his autobiographical novel Akkarmashi. Akkarmashi has been translated into several other Indian languages and in English. The English translation is published by the Oxford University Press with the title The Outcaste. His critical work Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature (2004) is considered amongst the most important works on the Dalit literature.
Sreemati Chakrabarti is a former Professor, Department of East Asian Studies and former Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi. She is also Honorary Fellow and Vice-Chairperson, Inst
Madhuri Bose was born and brought up in Kolkata, the daughter and second child of Amiya Nath and Jyostna Bose, grand-daughter of Sarat Chandra Bose and grand-niece of his younger brother Subha
Jacques Derrida was an Algerian-born French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, and which was developed through close readings of th
Harshala Gupte was born and raised in the mad city of Mumbai, which she believes taught her the first lessons in inclusivity and acceptance. Her fascination is with telling common-day stories with nua
