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A.G. Noorani
Noorani or Ghafoorbhai, as he was more popularly known, was a polymath and much more. One of the sharpest minds on constitutional law and a prolific writer on a range of subjects, he had a deep sense of justice and was committed to secularism, equity, and progressive ideas. His repertoire of writing spanned domestic politics, jurisprudence as well as international relations, contemporary as well as historical.
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS FBA (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He created the philosophical school known as process philosophy,[2] which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology. In his early career Whitehead wrote primarily on mathematics, logic, and physics. He wrote the three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910–1913), with his former student Bertrand Russell. Principia Mathematica is considered one of the twentieth century's most important works in mathematical logic, and placed 23rd in a list of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the twentieth century by Modern Library.[3] Beginning in the late 1910s and early 1920s, Whitehead gradually turned his attention from mathematics to philosophy of science, and finally to metaphysics. He developed a comprehensive metaphysical system which radically departed from most of Western philosophy. Whitehead argued that reality consists of processes rather than material objects, and that processes are best defined by their relations with other processes, thus rejecting the theory that reality is fundamentally constructed by bits of matter that exist independently of one another.[4] Whitehead's philosophical works – particularly Process and Reality – are regarded as the foundational texts of process philosophy. Whitehead's process philosophy argues that "there is urgency in coming to see the world as a web of interrelated processes of which we are integral parts, so that all of our choices and actions have consequences for the world around us."[4] For this reason, one of the most promising applications of Whitehead's thought in the 21st century has been in the area of ecological civilization and environmental ethics pioneered by John B. Cobb.[5][6]
Antony Dapiran
Antony Dapiran is a Hong Kong-based lawyer, writer and photographer. Antony has written and presented extensively on China and Hong Kong business, politics and culture. A contributing editor at Art Asia Pacific, his writing has also appeared in, among others, the Sydney Morning Herald, South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia Review, Hong Kong Free Press, News Corp’s Business Spectator, and the LA Review of Books’ China Blog.
Bonnie Garmus,
Garmus is from Seattle.[1] She received her Bachelor’s degree in creative writing/aesthetic studies from University of California, Santa Cruz.[2] She has worked as a copywriter and creative director in the US, and has lived in Switzerland and Colombia. She currently resides in the UK.[1]
E. Ahmet Tonak
E. Ahmet Tonak is a Research Affiliate at Smith College and teaches at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst). From 2018 to 2024, he was an economist at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. His most recent book (written with Sungur Savran) is In the Tracks of Marx’s Capital: Debates in Marxian Political Economy and Lessons for 21st Century Capitalism.
Emiliano López
Emiliano López is the coordinator of the Buenos Aires office of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is a CONICET researcher at IdiHCS and a professor of Economics at the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
Gauhar Raza
Gauhar Raza (born 17 August 1956) is an Indian scientist by profession, and a leading Urdu poet, social activist[1] and documentary filmmaker working to popularize the understanding of science among general public, known for his films like Jung-e-Azadi, on the India's First War of Independence, and Inqilab (2008) on Bhagat Singh.[2][3][4] He was also the honorary director of Jahangirabad Media Institute.
Ghanshyam Shah
Ghanshyam Shah is an independent researcher and retired Professor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was earlier Director and Professor at the Centre for Social Studies, Surat; Dr. Ambedkar Chair Professor at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie; Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, Wassenaar; and National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research and the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. The books he has authored/co-authored/edited include Social Inclusion and Education in India (2020), Democracy, Civil Society and Governance (2019), Growth and Development: Which Way is Gujarat Going? (2014), Re-reading ‘Hind Swaraj’: Modernity and Subalterns (2012), Untouchability in Rural India (2006), Caste and Democratic Politics in India (2002, 2004), Public Health and Urban Development (1997) and Social Movements in India (1981, 2004).
Kanak Lata
कनक लता सामाजिक-राजनीतिक और शिक्षा से संबंधित मुद्दों पर लिखते हुए वंचित समाज से जुड़े प्रश्नों को लगातार उठाती रही हैं। उन्होंने दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय से पीएचडी की उपाधि हासिल की है और कुछ समय तक कॉलेजों में अध्यापन किया है। अज़ीम प्रेमजी फाउंडेशन में बतौर ‘शिक्षक प्रशिक्षक’ उत्तराखंड के कई इलाक़ों में उन्होंने शिक्षकों के प्रशिक्षण कार्यक्रम में सक्रिय रूप से भागीदारी की है | वह स्त्रियों से संबंधित मुद्दे पर लेख के लिए लक्ष्मी देवी अवार्ड से सम्मानित हैं।
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Kundan Kumar
Sanjay Kundan is a man of many parts – journalist, celebrated poet and fiction writer, foodie, Patna-lover. We reached out to him and asked him if he'd help us create our Hindi list, and he agreed, making us very happy indeed. He is now Editorial Consultant for Vaam Prakashan, besides pursuing his own literary interests. He's committed to establishing Vaam Prakashan as a cutting-edge imprint of progressive literature in Hindi, and we are excited to have him guide us.
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. A world-renowned linguist and political activist, he is the author of numerous books, including On Language, Understanding Power (edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel), American Power and the New Mandarins, For Reasons of State, Problems of Knowledge and Freedom, Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship, Towards a New Cold War, The Essential Chomsky(edited by Anthony Arnove), On Anarchism, The Chomsky–Foucault Debate (with Michel Foucault). He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
OlÍvia Carolino Pires
OlÍvia Carolino Pires works for the federal government in Brazil. She co-ordinates the Brazil Popular Project and the National Directorate of the Popular Brazil Movement. Olivia teaches at the Florestan Fernandes National School and the Paulo Freire National School. She was the research coordinator at the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research from 2019 to 2023.
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Randhir Singh
Randhir Singh, a distinguished teacher and former Professor of Political Theory, University of Delhi, is the author of Reason, Revolution and Political Theory; Five Lectures in Marxist Mode; Marxism, Socialism, Indian Politics – A View from the Left; Contemporary Ecological Crisis – A Marxist View; Indian Politics Today – An Argument for Socialism-Oriented Path of Development and Struggle for Socialism – Some Issues. He has been associated with the communist movement since 1939. Of his writings, Harry Magdoff, editor, Monthly Review, has said: 'I admire the solidity of your analysis as well as the firmness of your commitment.'
Romila Thapar
Romila Thapar (born 30 November 1931) is a distinguished Indian historian whose principal area of study is ancient India. She is the author of numerous substantial books including the popular classic, A History of India, and is currently Professor Emerita at Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) in New Delhi. After graduating from Panjab University, Thapar earned her doctorate under A.L. Basham at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London in 1958. She was a reader in Ancient Indian History at Kurukshetra University between 1961 and 1962 and held the same position at Delhi University between 1963 and 1970. Later, she worked as Professor of Ancient Indian History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where she is now Professor Emerita. Thapar's major works are Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas, Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations, Recent Perspectives of Early Indian History (ed.), A History of India Volume One, and Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300.
Saitya Brata Das
Saitya Brata Das teaches at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is associated with the UFR Philosophie, University de Strasbourg, France, and with Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Paris, where he was Post Doctorate fellow during 2006-2007. His first book-length study called The Promise of Time: Towards a Phenomenology of Promise was published by Indian Institute of Advanced Study.
Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashadis director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, editor at LeftWord Books, and chief correspondent for Globetrotter Independent Media Institute. He is the author of forty books, including Untouchable Freedom: A Social History of a Dalit Community, Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. The Darker Nations won the Muzaffar Ahmad Book Prize. He lives in Santiago, Chile.