S Irfan Habib is an Indian historian of science, a widely published author, and a public intellectual. He was the Abul Kalam Azad Chair at the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi. Before joining NIEPA, he was a scientist at the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS), New Delhi.
Yashpal (1903-1976) began to write while serving a life sentence for his participation, as a comrade of Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad, in the armed struggle for India's independence. What he
Maya John teaches history at the University of Delhi (India). She is a prominent social activist who has been writing on issues of health, education, labour, gender, social movements, transformativ
Darko Suvin, a prominent Marxist scholar andpoet born in erstwhile Yugoslavia, has contributed immensely in the field of Marxist literary theory and aesthetics. He has engaged with the question of