Novelist, poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, journalist, Dharamvir Bharati was a colossus of the Hindi literary world. Born in Allahabad, he studied Hindi at Allahabad University and went on to teach there as well. Deeply influenced by western intellectual thought, from the works of Karl Marx to the writings of Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre, he also studied the great Indian texts such as the Mahabharata, works of philosophy and the poetry of luminaries like Kabir and Surdas. The 1950s were his most creative years when he wrote some of his most outstanding works.
Indira Jaising is the Director of Lawyers‘ Collective Women’s Rights Initiative. She was the first woman to be designated Senior Advocate (1986) and the first woman to be appointed Additional S
T. Jayaraman is currently Professor and Chairperson, Centre for Science, Technology and Society, School of Habitat Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Trained as a theoretical
Saadia Toor is an associate professor at the City University of New York and the author of The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan.
Akshaya Mukul is the author of Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India (2015), which won every major non-fiction award in India on its release, including the Crossword Book Award, Ramnat
