Noam Chomsky

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Amiya Kumar Bagchi

Amiya Kumar Bagchi is the founder Director and Professor of Economics, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata. He was formerly Reserve Bank of India Professor of Economics and Director, Centre fo

V. Geetha

V. Geetha writes in Tamil and in English on history, culture and gender. She has co-authored with S.V. Rajadurai, Towards a Non-Brahmin Millennium: From Iyothee Thass to Periyar (Samya, rev. ed. 20

P. Raman

An octogenarian, P. Raman brings with him the trials and tribulations of the print media spread over half a century. Beginning as a sub-editor, he worked with a dozen English dailies and weeklies,

Ernst Fischer

Ernst Fischer (3 July 1899 - 31 July 1972) was an Austrian journalist and politician.

Eve Ensler

Eve Ensler is the Tony Award winning playwright, activist, and author of the theatrical Obie Award winning phenomenon, The Vagina Monologues, published in 48 languages and performed in over 140 cou

Ajoy Kumar Ghosh

Ajoy Kumar Ghosh (20 February 1909–13 January 1962) was an Indian freedom fighter and prominent leader of the Communist Party of India.

E.V. Ilyenkov

Evald Vassilievich Ilyenkov (1924-79) was a Marxist philosopher in the erstwhile Soviet Union.

Alpa Shah

Alpa Shah is Associate Professor (Reader) in Anthropology at LSE. She is the author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto, 2017) and In the Shadows of the State, Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism and In

Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad is the Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Darker Nations: A Biography of the Short-Lived T

Rana Ayyub

Rana Ayyub is a former editor with Tehelka and is presently an independent journalist and writer based between Mumbai and Delhi. Her body of investigative and political reports spanning a deca

K. Savitri Ammal

Hailing from an illustrious family, K. Savitri Ammal (1898-1992) was a well-known Tamil writer. With a good command over both Sanskrit and English, she was a literary scholar, an essayist and a short