Over the past twenty-five years, GRAIN, an international NGO has worked with social movements and organizations around the world to defend local food systems and cultures from the advance of industrial agriculture. But another important part of its work has involved connecting this analysis of the food system to larger issues affecting the planet and linking peoples' struggles situated within the food system to those happening in other areas. Climate change is one important example of this.
Sipra Mukherjee is Professor, Department of English, West Bengal State University. She has translated Manoranjan Byapari's Interrogating My Chandal Life: Autobiography of A Dalit (Sage-Samya, 2018)
Herbert Marcuse was born in Berlin and educated at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg. Author of numerous books, Marcuse taught at Columbia, Harvard, and Brandeis universities before his death in
Jasodhara Bagchi was an independent scholar, formerly Chairperson of the West Bengal Commission for Women and Director, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University; also Professor of English, Jad
