István Mészáros (19 December 1930 - 1 October 2017), one of the foremost Marxist intellectuals of our time, left his native Hungary after the Soviet invasion of 1956. He was professor emeritus a
SHASHI DESHPANDE has written novels, short stories, essays and children's books. Three of her novels have received awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award for That Long Silence. The most recent
Anupama Rao is TOW Associate Professor of History at Barnard College and Associate Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. She is the author of The Caste Question: Dalits and
Christopher Hill was an English Marxist historian and academic, specialising in seventeenth century English history. From 1965 to 1978, he was Master of Balliol College, Oxford University.
Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable in Andhra Pradesh. She studied physics at the Regional Engineering College, Warangal, and was later a researcher in applied physics at the Indian Institute of
