Usha Ganguli (1945–2020) was an Indian theatre director-actor and activist, best known for her work in Hindi theatre in Calcutta from the 1970s till the 2010s. She founded the Rangakarmee theatre gr
Gita Chaudhuri is associated with Katha's Translation Centre at St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad, and has recently translated M.K. Gandhi's My Experiments with Truth from Gujarati to Bengali.
Born near Cologne in 1828, Joseph Dietzgen worked most of his life as a tanner. A self-educated man, he participated in the Revolution of 1848 where he first read the writings of Karl Marx and beca
Hoshang Merchant (b. 1947) has authored twenty-nine books of poetry, literary commentary, translations, memoirs, and anthologies including Yaraana: Gay Writing from India (1999) and most recently Secr
Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. His novel My Name Is Red won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has been translated into more than sixty languages. He lives in I
