Baburao Bagul (1930–2008) was born in the Nashik district of Maharashtra. A short-story writer, poet and essayist, he is regarded as a pioneer of modern Marathi and Dalit literature. He was among
Anant Raje (1929–2009) was a well-known architect, intellectual, and teacher. He graduated in 1954 from the J.J. School of Fine Arts, Mumbai. He started his architecture studio in India in 1969, upo
Bernard D'Mello is a senior journalist with the Economic & Political Weekly and a civil rights activist with the Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights, Mumbai.
JOYA MITRA is a full-time writer, and author of several novels and collections of poems in Bengali. Her involvement with politics began while she was a college student in the late '60s. Her poetry
Jothibai Pariyadath, the transcriber of Mayilamma: Oru Jeevitham, is an acclaimed Malayalam poet, writer and translator. She published her first poetry collection, Pesamadantha, in 2009, and has trans
Tilottoma Misra is an Assamese writer and critic. Her works include Literature and Society in Assam: A Study of the Assamese Renaissance, 1826-1926 (1987), and Lauhitya-sindhu (1997). She is also t
Ali Raza is Associate Professor of History at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He works on the social, intellectual and anti-colonial history of modern South Asia. He has publis
