Siddalingaiah is a major Kannada poet and one of the founders of the Dalit Sangharsha Samiti. He has also written two plays, and his doctoral research was on folk deities. He has served twice as member of the Karnataka Legislative Council. A professor at Bangalore University, he is also chairman of the Kannada Development Authority.
Shahnaz Rouse teaches Sociology at Sarah Lawrence College, New York. She is the author of various articles on women, religion, nationalism and the State which have been published in South Asia, the
Rajinder Azad was born on December 4, 1986 in a small village called Herian in the district of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, Punjab. In 2006, he went to Australia to study community welfare and there
Neeladri Bhattacharya taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University for forty-one years, from where he retired in 2017 as Professor of History. He has been a Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, and has h
Poet, artist and editor Paresh Tiwari has been widely published, especially in the sub- genre of Japanese poetry. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he has published two widely acclaimed collections of poet
