G.P. Deshpande
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G.P. Deshpande
G.P. Deshpande (1938-2013) retired as Professor of Chinese Studies at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of The World of Ideas in Modern Marathi: Phule, Vinoba, Savarkar (Tulika, 2009), Talking the Political Culturally and Other Essays (Thema 2009) and Dialectics of Defeat: The Problems of Culture in Postcolonial India (Seagull 2006). He is also a playwright and critic in Marathi. His best-known plays include Uddhwasta Dharmashala (A Man in Dark Times), Andhar Yatra (Passage to Darkness), Chanakya Vishnugupta, Raaste (Roads), and Satyashodhak, a play on the life and times of Jotirao Phule.
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Madhusree Dutta
Madhusree is a filmmaker; also a curator and pedagogue. Though visual culture is the key to her works, inter-disciplinary initiatives and multi-linguality in representations frame her myriad engage
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Srividya Sivakumar
Srividya Sivakumar is a poet, teacher, columnist and speaker. She has two collections of poetry, The Blue Note and the critically- acclaimed The Heart is an Attic. Her weekly column, Running on Poe
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Philip Hill
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Joti Sekhon
Joti Sekhon is Professor of Sociology at Greensboro College, North Carolina, USA, where she is also the coordinator of the International Studies Programme. She is the author of Modern India.
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Abida Shakoor
Abida Shakoor was known as an excellent teacher in the Aligarh Muslim University.
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Nishant Shah
Nishant Shah works at the intersections of academic research, humanist traditions of story-telling and meaning making, and capacity development for hopeful change practice. He is currently Professo
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