Teesta Setalvad

Teesta Setalvad is a human rights activist and journalist. She is secretary of Citizens for Justice and Peace, an organization that has fought to get justice for the victims of the anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat in 2002. Along with fellow journalist and husband Javed Anand, she is co-founder and co-editor of Communalism Combat and the website Sabrang. LeftWord published her memoirs Footsoldier of the Constitution, in 2017.

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Alex Akhup

Alex Akhup belongs to the Kom society. His research interests include epistemology, lived experiences, worldviews, narratives, history writing and ecology studies.

K.B. Saxena

K.B. Saxena retired from the Indian Administrative Service in 2001. He is currently Professor of Social Justice and Governance in the Council for Social Development.

Bhupen Sarmah

Bhupen Sarmah is Professor and Director at OKD Institute os Social Change and Development, Guwahati. His current research interests include political economy of development, autonomy and ethni

A. Mangai

A. Mangai is the pseudonym of Dr. V. Padma, who teaches English at Stella Maris College, Chennai. She has been actively engaged in theatre for close to three decades. She writes bilingually in Tami

Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1998-2004. His most recent books are The Id

K. J. Joy

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Bhagwan Das

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Soumick De

Soumick De is currently a post doctoral fellow at Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), India where he is working on the concept of the tragic and its relevance in the political imaginati

Teesta Setalvad

Teesta Setalvad

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