Vasanth Kannabiran is a feminist writer, a pioneer of the Indian women’s movement, a founding member of the Asmita Resource Centre for Women and member of the collective, Stree Shakti Sanghatana. She has worked for over four decades on issues of development, rights, communal harmony and peace, apart from bringing the concerns of gender and equality into the contemporary political discourse. She is the author of A Grief to Bury: Memories of Love, Work & Loss and Sathyavathi: Confronting Caste, Class and Gender, among others; has co-authored Web of Deceit and De-Eroticising Assault: Essays on Modesty, Honour and Power; and was a popular columnist for a Telugu daily. Kannabiran has also written and directed five ballets in English.
Louis Althusser was a philosopher born in Algeria in 1918. He died in France in 1990. His other publications in English include For Marx, Politics and History, and On Ideology.
Shad Naved teaches in the Comparative Literature programme, School of Letters, Ambedkar University Delhi. He is currently working on a monograph, Against Vernacularity: Historical Eros in the Urdu
Ilan Pappé (born 1954) is an Israeli historian and activist. He is the director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies
Poet, artist and editor Paresh Tiwari has been widely published, especially in the sub- genre of Japanese poetry. A Pushcart Prize nominee, he has published two widely acclaimed collections of poet
