Sudhanva Deshpande
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Sudhanva Deshpande
Sudhanva Deshpande is a theatre director and actor. He joined Jana Natya Manch in 1987, and has acted in over 4,000 performances of over 80 plays. His articles and essays have appeared in The Drama Review, The Hindu, Frontline, Seminar, Economic and Political Weekly, Udbhavna, Samaj Prabodhan Patrika, among others. He has co-directed two films on the theatre legend Habib Tanvir and his company Naya Theatre. He is the editor of Theatre of the Streets: The Jana Natya Manch Experience (Janam 2007), and co-editor of Our Stage: Pleasures and Perils of Theatre Practice in India (Tulika 2008). He has held teaching positions at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Since 1998, he has been Managing Editor, LeftWord Books. He cycles around town.
- Halla BolINR 350
This is not a story of death. It is a story of life. The luminous life of Safdar Hashmi, extraordinary in all its ordinariness.
On New Year’s Day in 1989, Jana Natya Manch – Janam – t...
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- Our StageINR 350Theatre practice in India is like the country itself - vast, diverse, pulsating. Theatre in India happens anywhere and everywhere - in badly designed auditoria, in schools and colleges, in parks and g...
- The Kisan Long March in MaharashtraINR 175
It was an incredible sight – 40,000 poor farmers and landless labourers walking over 200 kilometres, from Nashik to Mumbai. They captured the city's imagination and left it with an enduring m...
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Harry Magdoff
Harry Magdoff (1913-2006) was an American socialist and influential Marxist economist. He was co-editor, along with Paul Sweezy, of the independent Marxian journal Monthly Review for many year
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Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) was an American painter.
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Giovanni Arrighi
Giovanni Arrighi (1937-2009) was an Italian economist and sociologist. Some of his seminal works include The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times (1994), Chaos and
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Siddalingaiah
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 me
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Samina Mishra
Samina Mishra is a New Delhi-based documentary filmmaker and writer.
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Peter Hudis
Peter Hudis is an organizer for the Chicago-based News & Letters collective, and co-editor of The Power of Negativity, a collection of Raya Dunayevskaya’s writings on dialectic.![](https://mayday.leftword.com/pub/media/sakshay_author/Denning.jpg)
Michael Denning
MICHAEL DENNING is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and the co-director of Yale’s Initiative on Labor and Culture. He is the author of Culture in t