Victor Turner was born in Scotland and educated in England. He began his career as a research officer with the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in northern Rhodesia. Best known for his ethnographic studies of ritual and social process among the Ndembu, Turner also produced significant theoretical insights about rites of passage, the psychology of healing, conflict management, the importance of drama and play, and the theory of symbolic interpretation. He spent much of his career at universities in the United States and was among the leading figures in the turn to symbolic interpretation that marked American anthropology during the 1960s and 1970s.
Gauri Deshpande (1942-2003) bilingual poet, essayist and short story writer in Marathi and English, has been published extensively in both languages. Her fluency in them has earned her the reputati
Mathangi Subramanian is a writer, educator, and activist who believes that stories have the power to change the world. A former American public school teacher, assistant vice president at Sesame Wo
Vivan Sundaram (born 1943) studied painting in Baroda and London. Since 1990 he has made sculpture, installation, photography, and video. His major works include the installations Memorial (1993),
Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, a leader in the International Forum on Globalisation, and of the Slow Food Movement. Director of Navdanya and of the Research F
Gargi Chakravartty, formerly a faculty member of Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, is also a social activist. She is the author of Gandhi's Challenge to Communalism (1987), Coming Out of Parti
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
