Eric J. Hobsbawm

Ashwin Desai

Ashwin Desai is Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. His previous books include South Africa: Still Revolting, ‘We are the Poors’: Community Struggles in Post-Apart

David A. McDonald

David A. McDonald is Professor of Global Development Studies at Queen's University, Canada, and Co-Director of the Municipal Services Project.

Arvinder Ansari

Dr. Arvinder A. Ansari is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, specializing in Gender Studies, Minority Studies, and Sociology of Exclusion and Inclusion, Ethnici

Shahrnush Parisipur

SHAHRNUSH PARSIPUR, born in Iran in 1946, began her career as a fiction writer and a producer at Iranian National Television and Radio. Shortly after the publication of Women Without Men in 1989, P

Greg Ruiters

Prof. Gregory Ruiters is Professor of Public Policy, School of Government, University of Western Cape. Co-Director Municipal Services Project. Previous Position: Director of Institute for Soci

John Burbidge

A.R. Venkatachalapathy

A.R. Venkatachalapathy, historian and Tamil writer, is a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), Chennai.

John Keats

English Romantic poet John Keats was born on October 31, 1795, in London. The oldest of four children, he lost both his parents at a young age. His father, a livery-stable keeper, died when Keats w