Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1998-2004. His most recent books are The Idea of Justice, Identity and Violence and Development as Freedom. His books have been translated into thirty languages.
Inukonda Thirumali is a senior fellow at the Indian Council of Social Science Research and Chairman of Joint Action Committee of Telangana Praja Sanghalu.