Vasanth Kannabiran
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Vasanth Kannabiran
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.
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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
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Sunetra Gupta
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Anupama Rao
Anupama Rao is TOW Associate Professor, History and MESAAS, Barnard College, Columbia University, and Senior Editor, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She has research
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Ariel Salleh
Ariel Salleh is an Australian scholar-activist, author of Ecofeminism as Politics and editor of Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice.
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Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) was a German Marxist poet, playwright and theatre practitioner. He was forced into exile in 1933, returning from the United States to Switzerland in 1947, and to East B
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Maya John
Maya John teaches history at the University of Delhi (India). She is a prominent social activist who has been writing on issues of health, education, labour, gender, social movements, transformativ
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