Sharankumar Limbale Marathi is a Marathi language author, poet and literary critic. He has penned more than 40 books but is best known for his autobiographical novel Akkarmashi. Akkarmashi has been translated into several other Indian languages and in English. The English translation is published by the Oxford University Press with the title The Outcaste. His critical work Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature (2004) is considered amongst the most important works on the Dalit literature.
One of the leading women writers of Gujarat, when Saroj Pathak died in 1989 at the age of sixty, she had published seven collections of stories and six novels. Her columns in Samachar and Gujarat M
Tamás Krausz is Professor of Russian History at the Eötvös Loránd Univesity of Sciences in Budapest, and Head of the Department of Eastern European Studies. One of the best-
JOYA MITRA is a full-time writer, and author of several novels and collections of poems in Bengali. Her involvement with politics began while she was a college student in the late '60s. Her poetry
Piya Chatterjee is a faculty member in the Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Scripps College, Claremont, California, USA. She is the author of A Time for Tea: Women, Labor an
