Eleanor Zelliot (1926-2016), in the 1960s, pioneered the study of the Dalit movement in India. She was Laird Bell Professor of History (1969-97) at Carleton College, Minnesota. She has written over
Bhaskar Sur has been in the thick of popular science and rights movements since his student days. He has contributed both in English and Bengali to various journals on the social role of science, t
Abdul Rahman Siddiqi is a retired Brigadier of the Pakistan Army. He was born and brought up in Delhi which he had to leave for Lahore during Partition. He now lives in Karachi.
Maryse Condé was born in Guadeloupe, a French territory of the Caribbean. She has taught extensively in Africa and the United States and is now a professor emerita at Columbia University, where she c
Antonio "Toni" Negri (born 1 August 1933) is an Italian Marxist sociologist and political philosopher, best known for his co-authorship of Empire, and secondarily for his work on Spinoza.
Aneesh Pradhan had a liberal and
encouraging familial upbringing, which was coupled with an intensive period of study under the illustrious tabla maestro Nikhil Ghosh. His training with this veritabl
