U.R. Ananthamurthy was one of India's major literary figures and public intellectuals. His extensive publications include novels, short stories, poetry, translations and essays. He was awarded the Jna
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A member of the Indian Foreign Service, Pavan K. Varma has served in Moscow, in New York at the Indian Mission to the United Nations, in London, where he was director of the Nehru Centre, and as In
Alf Gunvald Nilsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Bergen. His research focuses on social movements in the global South. He is the author of Dispossession and R
Julian Paul Assange (born 3 July 1971) is
an Australian publisher and journalist. He is known as the editor-in-chief of the website WikiLeaks, which he co-founded in 2006 afte
