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 India’s high commissioner in Cyprus. Pavan K. Varma’s books include Ghalib: The Man, The Times, The Great Indian Middle Class, Being Indian and Becoming Indian, all published by Penguin. He has also translated Kaifi Azmi’s Selected Poems and Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s poetry (21 Poems) into English for Penguin.
Ananya Vajpeyi is the author of the award-winning, Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India. She works at the intersection of intellectual history, political theory and critica
Gopalkrishna Gandhi took voluntary retirement from the Indian Administrative Service in 1992, was Director of The Nehru Centre, London, from 1992 to 1996, and later High Commissioner for India in S
Chris Blackmore, a Senior Lecturer in Systems and Environment at The Open University. She is currently a member of the management team for the OU-wide Ethics Centre. Her main research area, in which s
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
