Ravikumar is a Tamil critic, translator and poet who has founded several ‘little magazines’. His nonfiction has been published as Venomous Touch: Notes on Caste, Culture and Politics (2009). He was a legislator in the Tamil Nadu assembly with the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, a Dravidian political party. He is the editor of and a contributor to Waking is Another Dream, an anthology of poetry on the genocide in Eelam. Ravikumar, along with S. Anand, is the cofounder of Navayana. He is the co-editor of The Oxford India Anthology of Tamil Dalit Writing.
Yasmin Saikia is Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies and Professor of History, Arizona State University. She is the author of numerous articles and a book, Assam and India: Struggling to be Tai-
Jan Breman has conducted anthropological fieldwork in Gujarat between 1962 and 2015. His empirical research, focused on the bottom segments of the rural and urban workforce, discusses the changing
English Romantic poet John Keats was born on October 31, 1795, in London. The oldest of four children, he lost both his parents at a young age. His father, a livery-stable keeper, died when Keats w
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