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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John Callow

John Callow is the chief librarian of the Marx Memorial Library. He is the author of several books including The King in Exile, The Making of James II and The Triumph and the Tragedy.

Rajesh Tyagi

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Claudia De La Cruz

Claudia De La Cruz is Co-Executive Director of The People’s Forum (New York).

Erik S. Reinert

Erik S. Reinert is professor of technology governance and development strategies at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, and heads The Other Canon Foundation in Norway.

Nigamanand Sadangi

Nigamanand Sadangi is an activist, writer and translator based in Bhubaneswar. He is part of the Anwesha collective – a socio-political journal in Odia.

Premanand Gajvee

Premanand Gajvee is a prominent Marathi playwright. After storming the Marathi stage with his one-act Ghotbhar Pani (A Sip of Water) in 1977, which has been staged over 3,000 times, Gajvee has writ

Gita Chaudhuri

Gita Chaudhuri is associated with Katha's Translation Centre at St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad, and has recently translated M.K. Gandhi's My Experiments with Truth from Gujarati to Bengali.

Sylvia Vatuk

Sylvia Vatuk is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She is the author of Kinship and Urbanization: White-Collar Migrants in North India, and of numerous arti

Teesta Setalvad

Teesta Setalvad

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