Born into an ‘untouchable’ family, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) was one of India’s most radical thinkers. A brilliant student, he earned doctorates in economics from both Co
Adithi Rao is a writer, educator, and activist. She has spent the last eight years travelling between India, Argentina, Mexico, and the United States; all the peoples and cultures she encountered o
Meera Velayudhan is a policy analyst and former president of Indian Association for Women’s Studies (IAWS). She has been involved in gender studies from its inception in India in early 1980s, her
Ritu Menon co-founded Kali for Women, India’s first feminist press, in 1984, and is founder-director of Women Unlimited, an associate of KfW. She is the author of several books, among them the gr
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) was a German Marxist poet, playwright and theatre practitioner. He was forced into exile in 1933, returning from the United States to Switzerland in 1947, and to East B
