Sulekha Sanyal
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Sulekha Sanyal
Sulekha Sanyal was born in 1928 in an impoverished family that had once been indigo planters. She became a communist while a student. At thirty-five she died of leukemia, leaving a number of short stories and novels characterized by their passion and subtlety.
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Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros (born 20 December 1954) is an American short-story writer, poet and novelist.
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Brahma Prakash
Brahma Prakash teaches theatre and performance studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.![](https://mayday.leftword.com/pub/static/frontend/leftword/luma_child/en_US/images/no-image.png)
N I Matar
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Renuka Ray
Renuka Ray became a Gandhian and a nationalist at sixteen when she met Mahatma Gandhi at the house of her uncle, Chittaranjan Das, in Calcutta. Aside from her political career, she was a well-known
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Milos Samardzija
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Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) is widely considered to be the finest Soviet poet of his time. He was also an artist, playwright, and actor.
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Barnita Bagchi
Barnita Bagchi (born 12 June 1973) is a faculty member in literary studies at Utrecht University. Since her college days, she has worked actively with feminist institutions and activist organizatio