Uma Randeria was one of the translators of The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi from Gujarati into English. She has also translated collections of short stories from Russian and Bengali into Gujarati. Her Gujarati translation of the award-winning Bengali novel, Sei Samay by Sunil Gangopadhyay, has received two awards from the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad and the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi.
Imre Bangha, a Ph.D. in Hindi from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, is Associate Professor of Hindi, University of Oxford. He works on Old Hindi literature and on the Hungarian reception of Tagore.
Very little is known about the two secretaries of the embassy sent by Tipu Sultan to Constantinople, Khwaja Abdul Qadir, who wrote the Waqai-i Manazil-i Rum, and Sayyid Jafar.
bell hooks (1952-2021), is a cultural critic, feminist theorist, and writer. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks was a Distinguished Prof
Qurratulain Hyder is one of Urdu’s greatest fiction writers. Her published work consists of four collections of short stories, five novels and several novellas. She was a journalist, scriptwriter an
Anthony Arnove (born 1969) is a journalist, editor, publisher and activist from Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal (2006) and editor of Iraq under Siege: The Deadly Impact
Ather Zia is a political anthropologist, poet, columnist, and short fiction writer. She teaches at the University of Northern Colorado Greeley, and is the author of Resisting Disappearances: Milita
