Shashank Kela worked as an activist in a trade union of Adivasi peasants in western Madhya Pradesh between 1994 and 2004. A Rouge and Peasant Slave is his first book.
Benjamin Zachariah is a Research Fellow at the Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University. He is the author of Developing India: An Intellectual and Social Histor
Radhika Coomaraswamy was formerly Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission, Sri Lanka, and Director, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo. She was formerly the United Nations Special
Ram Dayal Munda (1939–2011), a Munda Visionary, was a scholar, educationist, linguist, writer, musician, tribal activist and a key actor in the creation of the Jharkhand state. He was born in a v
Anjum Katyal is a writer, editor and translator. She has translated plays by Habib Tanvir and Usha Ganguli, and fiction by Mahasweta Devi and Meera Mukherjee. She has been Chief Editor, Seagull Books,
Syeda S. Hameed is an Indian social and women's rights activist, educationist, writer and a former member of the Planning Commission of India and the National Commission for Women. She has edited t
