Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay is an Associate Professor at IGNOU. His areas of interest include Labour History, Dalit Studies and Literary Studies. He has authored Existence, Identity and Mobilization: The Cotton Millworkers of Bombay, 1890-1919, besides articles on historiography and Premchand.
Pinarayi Vijayan (born 1945) is the Chief Minister of Kerala. He served as Minister of Electric Power and Co-operation from 1996 to 1998. He joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 1964. H
Deepak Borgave holds a Ph.D. in Translation Studies and an M.Phil. in Modern British Poetry. He has translated over a dozen books. His translation of Gujarat Files by Rana Ayyub into Marathi was pu
Lal Khan was born at Bhuan, Pakistan in 1956. He joined Nishtar Medical College, Multan in 1975 where he was elected General Secretary of the student union, against the forces of reactionary Islami
Wandana Sonalkar was professor of women's and gender studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She is the translator of, among others,We Also Made History: Women in the Ambedkar Mov
Ira Raja is Lecturer in English at the University of Delhi in India. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature. She has co-edited with John Thieme, an anthology of South Asi
