Rafia Zakaria
Rafia Zakaria is a columnist for Dawn (Pakistan) and the Boston Review’s ‘Reading Other Women’ Series. She is the author of The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan (Beacon Press) and Veil (Bloomsbury). She has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Nation, Guernica and various other publications.
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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.
Abhishek Majumdar
Abhishek Majumdar is a playwright, director and essayist. Apart from theatre, he has worked in cinema and opera. He is the Artistic Director of Nalanda Arts Studio, Bengaluru, and heads the theatre programme at the New York University, Abu Dhabi. His best-known plays include Kaumudi, Eidgah Ke Jinnat, Muktidham and Pah-la.
Aijaz Ahmad
Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022) was one of India's best-known Marxist scholars. His best-known books include In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures (1992), Lineages of the Present: Ideological and Political Genealogies of Contemporary South Asia (1996), and, from LeftWord Books, Nothing Human is Alien to Me: Aijaz Ahmad in conversation with Vijay Prashad (2020), Iraq, Afghanistan and the Imperialism of Our Time (2004).
Alexandra Kollontai
Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (1872-1952) was a Russian revolutionary, writer, and diplomat. After the October Revolution, she was appointed People's Commissar for Social Welfare. Her diplomatic career began in 1923, when she was appointed Soviet Ambassador to Norway, becoming only the second woman in the world to hold such a high diplomatic post in modern times. She also served as Ambassador to Mexico and Sweden. She was also a member of the Soviet delegation to the League of Nation
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]
Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria and is the author of The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and the first two volumes of The Ibis Trilogy: Sea of Poppies, and River of Smoke.
Anand Teltumbde
Anand Teltumbde is a civil rights activist, political analyst, columnist and author of many books. He has had a long association with peoples’ struggles, spanning over three decades. Trained in technology and management he marshals his insights of the modern techno-managerial world to sharpen strategies of struggles. His recent books are Mahad: The Making of the First Dalit Revolt (Aakar, 2016), Dalits: Past, Present and Future (Routledge, 2016), Persistence of Castes (Zed Books, 2006), Anti-Imperialism and Annihilation of Castes (Ramai, 2004). A long-time opponent of Hindutva forces, he has been incarcerated by India’s right-wing government since 2020 on charges that appear fabricated.
Anirudh Deshpande
Anirudh Deshpande is Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi, Delhi. He is co-editor, along with Partha Sarathi Gupta, of The British Raj and its Indian Armed Forces, 1857-1939 (2002), and author of British Military Policy in India 1900-1945: Colonial Constraints and Declining Power (2005), Class, Power and Consciousness in Indian Cinema and Television (2009), A Spring of Despair: Mutiny, Rebellion and Death in India, 1946 and Cinema Aur Itihaas – Kuch Paraspar Sambandh (both forthcoming).
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.
Anupama Rao
Anupama Rao is TOW Associate Professor, History and MESAAS, Barnard College, Columbia University, and Senior Editor, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She has research and teaching interests in gender and sexuality studies; caste and race; historical anthropology; social theory; comparative urbanism; and colonial genealogies of human rights and humanitarianism.
Archana Prasad
Archana Prasad is Professor at the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is the author of Against Ecological Romanticism: Verrier Elwin and the Making of an Anti-Modern Tribal Identity (2011), and Environmentalism and the Left: Contemporary Debates and Future Agendas (LeftWord, 2004).
Ari Sitas
Ari Sitas is a poet, dramatist and sociologist. He was at the core of the transformation of Labour Studies, of popular and theatre work, and a range of cultural initiatives in South Africa. He has been awarded the highest honour bequeathed to South Africans for his scientific and creative work, the Order of Mapungubwe. He is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town and a Gutenberg Chair at the University of Strasbourg.
Ather Zia
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: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir (2019); co-editor of Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (2018) and of A Desolation called Peace (2019). She has also published a book of poetry, The Frame (1999) and another is forthcoming. A widely published columnist, Ather is founder-editor of Kashmir Lit and co-founder of Critical Kashmir Studies Collective, an interdisciplinary network of scholars working on the Kashmir region.
Atilio A. Borón
Atilio A. Borón is a political scientist and sociologist. He has been a professor at the Social Sciences Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires since 1986. He is a senior researcher at CONICET. He is the author of many books including State, Capitalism, and Democracy in Latin America (1991), Empire and Imperialism: A Critical Reading of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (2002), Twenty-first Century Socialism: Is There Life After Neoliberalism? (2008), and most recently, América Latina en la Geopolítica del Imperialismo (2012).
Atul Tiwari
चित्त से नाटककार-नाट्यनिर्देशक, वृत्ति से पटकथा-संवाद लेखक, संयोग से एक संकोची अभिनेता और अनुभूति-संग्रहालयों के समर्थ-सक्षम रचयिता – अतुल तिवारी राष्ट्रीय नाट्य विद्यालय, जर्मन नेशनल थियेटर तथा बर्लिनर आंसाम्ब्ल से प्रशिक्षित हैं। उत्तर भारत के शहरों से लेकर दक्षिण भारत के गाँवों और विदेशों में भी इनके किये नाटक चर्चित रहे हैं। उनकी लिखी दर्जनों फिल्में प्रशंसित-पुरस्कृत हुई हैं। फिल्मों में इनके अभिनय ने अपनी अलग छाप छोड़ी है। इनके बनाये अनुभूति-संग्रहालय और अभिव्यक्ति-प्रदर्शन दिल्ली, लखनऊ, गांधीनगर, वाराणसी, करतारपुर, कुरुक्षेत्र, जम्मू, श्रीनगर जैसे कई नगरों में स्थाई रूप से स्थापित हैं।
B.R. Ambedkar
Born into an ‘untouchable’ family, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) was one of India’s most radical thinkers. A brilliant student, he earned doctorates in economics from both Columbia University, New York, and the London School of Economics. In 1936, the year he wrote Annihilation of Caste, Ambedkar founded the Independent Labour Party. The ILP contested the 1937 Bombay election to the Central Legislative Assembly for the 13 reserved and 4 general seats, and secured 11 and 3 seats respectively. He was India’s first Minister for Law and Justice, and oversaw the drafting of the Indian Constitution. Ambedkar eventually embraced Buddhism, a few months before his death in 1956.
Bhuvendra Tyagi
भुवेन्द्र त्यागी हिंदी के चर्चित लेखक-अनुवादक और पत्रकार हैं। विभिन्न पत्र-पत्रिकाओं में उनके लेख और टिप्पणियां प्रकाशित होती रही हैं। उन्होंने अंग्रेजी की कई रचनाओं का हिंदी में और हिंदी की कई रचनाओं का अंग्रेजी में अनुवाद किया है। उनकी प्रमुख पुस्तकें हैं – दहशत के 60 घंटे और ये है मुंबई।
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]
Burhan Sönmez
Burhan Sönmez is a novelist. He has published Kuzey (2009), Masumlar (2011), Istanbul Istanbul (2015) and translated William Blake into Turkish. He won the Disturbing the Peace award from the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation in 2017. He is a board member of PEN International.
C.P. Chandrasekhar
C.P. Chandrasekhar is a professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has published widely in academic journals, and is the co-author of several books, including The Market that Failed: Neo-Liberal Economic Reforms in India and Demonetisation Decoded: A Critique of India’s Currency Experiment. He is a regular columnist for Frontline and Business Line.
Carlos Martinez
Carlos Martinez is an activist, writer and musician based in London. He runs the political history blog Invent the Future. His major interests are the history of 'actually existing socialism' and strategies for challenging imperialism and building socialism in the 21st century.
Cecilia Bobrovskaya
Cecilia Samoylovna Bobrovskaya (1873–1960) was an early Bolshevik activist, revolutionary, and memoirist. She played a notable role in various local organizations of the Bolshevik Party – consequently facing repeated persecution by the authorities of the Russian Empire. She worked for the Comintern between 1918 and 1940, and was a member of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, the party's central theoretical and research institute, in later years.
Claudia Jones
Claudia Vera Jones was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist. As a child, she migrated with her family to the United States, where she became a Communist political activist, feminist and Black nationalist, adopting the name Jones as "self-protective disinformation".
D. Veeraraghavan
D. Veeraraghavan (1958–2009) studied history in Chennai at R.K.M. Vivekananda College, Presidency College, and Pachaiyappa’s College. In 1982 he joined IIT Madras for his PhD and submitted his thesis, in 1987, on the history of the working-class movement in interwar Chennai. The next year he joined its faculty and taught there until his premature death. He is the author of Chennai Perunagara Thozhirchanga Varalaru (translated into Tamil by S.S. Kannan and Puduvai Gnanam, Alaigal Veliyeettagam, Chennai, 2003). His The Making of the Madras Working Class (LeftWord, 2013) was published posthumously to wide acclaim.
Danish Husain
Danish Husain is an actor, poet, storyteller as well as a theatre director. He runs his own theatre company called the Hoshruba Repertory. He is known for his revival of Urdu storytelling through the Dastangoi form and later inventing the multilingual storytelling project Qissebaazi. He has appeared in a number of films, including Peepli Live (2010), AnkhonDekhi (2013), Newton (2017).
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.
E.M.S. Namboodiripad
E.M.S. NAMBOODIRIPAD (1909–1998) was among India’s pioneering Communist leaders and a Marxist theoretician of enormous stature. He became Chief Minister of Kerala on two occasions, in 1957 at the head of the historic first Communist government, and again in 1967 as head of a seven-party coalition. He was the author of several books and hundreds of articles and essays.
Eduardo Espinoza
Eduardo Espinoza is a medical doctor with a Master's in Public Health, Professor of Health Systems and Health Policy in the Master's in Public Health programme at the University of El Salvador and a health sector reform researcher. He was active in the revolutionary forces from 1975 to 1992 during the civil war in El Salvador, in charge of medical services in battle zones and of training health activists for the rebels and the civilian population in these areas, which had been abandoned by government medical services. He was detained and tortured twice: in 1978 (two months) and in 1985 (eight months). With the signing of the Peace Accords in 1992, he returned to the University of El Salvador to do research and teach public health. From 1995 to 1999, he was Dean of the Medical School at the University of El Salvador. He is a faculty member of the International People's Health University, a project of the People's Health Movement. In 2009, the government of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party drafted him to join the cabinet as Deputy Minister for Health Policy, where he continues, now with the second FMLN administration, elected in 2014.
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.
Emir Sader
Emir Sader is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of São Paolo and Director of the Latin American Social Science Research Council (CLACSO). He is the author of numerous works including (with Ken Silverstein) Without Fear of Being Happy: Lula, the Workers Party and Brazil.
Ernesto Che Guevara
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was the legendary Latin American guerrilla fighter who joined the Cuban revolutionary movement that toppled the Batista dictatorship. He played a leading role in the early years of the Cuban Revolution and made an extraordinary and original contribution to Marxist theory. He died at the hands of CIA assassins in Bolivia in 1967.
Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler is the Tony Award winning playwright, activist, and author of the theatrical Obie Award winning phenomenon, The Vagina Monologues, published in 48 languages and performed in over 140 countries. Ensler is founder of V-Day, the 20-year-old global activist movement to end violence against women and girls which has raised over 100 million dollars. V-Day, led her to also found One Billion Rising, the biggest global mass action to end violence against women in over 200 countries. Her new play The Fruit Trilogy will open in 2018 with the Abingdon Theatre Company at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
Farid Khan
फ़रीद ख़ाँ पटना में पले-बढ़े हैं। लगभग बचपन से ही पटना इप्टा से जुड़े रहे। पटना विश्वविद्यालय से उर्दू में एमए करने के बाद लखनऊ के भारतेंदु नाट्य अकादमी से नाट्य-कला में स्नातक। कई प्रतिष्ठित पत्र-पत्रिकाओं में कविताएँ प्रकाशित। दो नाटकों का लेखन जिन्हें पटना में इप्टा और नट-मंडप ने मंचित किया। अभी मुंबई में टीवी और फिल्मों में पटकथा लेखक के रूप में सक्रिय।
Fernando Gonzalez Llort
Fernando Gonzalez Llort is one of the ‘Cuban Five’, the revolutionary heroes, unfairly imprisoned in the United States for fighting against terrorist organizations that have operated from US territory against Cuba. In 2017 he was appointed President of Cuba’s Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP). A graduate of International Relations, Fernando served as an internationalist combatant in southern Angola between 1987–89.
Frederick Engels
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) was a German social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, together with Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research in Manchester. In 1848 he co-authored The Communist Manifestowith Karl Marx. Later he supported Marx financially to do research and write Das Kapital. After Marx's death, Engels edited the second and third volumes.
Fréderike Geerdink
Fréderike Geerdink is a Dutch journalist who started reporting from Istanbul, Turkey, in 2006. From 2012 to 2015, she was the only foreign journalist based in Diyarbakir, Turkey. She was arrested twice, in January and September 2015, before being deported from Turkey. Her previous book, The Boys are Dead: The Roboski Massacre and the Kurdish Question in Turkey (2015) was nominated for the Brusse Prize. The nomination stated, ‘Fréderike Geerdink is one of those courageous Dutch journalists who do their work in dangerous conflict zones. Her book became a both political and beautiful personal account of the struggle for self determination in Turkish Kurdistan.’ For more on the author, see
G.P. Deshpande
G.P. Deshpande (1938-2013) retired as Professor of Chinese Studies at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of The World of Ideas in Modern Marathi: Phule, Vinoba, Savarkar (Tulika, 2009), Talking the Political Culturally and Other Essays (Thema 2009) and Dialectics of Defeat: The Problems of Culture in Postcolonial India (Seagull 2006). He is also a playwright and critic in Marathi. His best-known plays include Uddhwasta Dharmashala (A Man in Dark Times), Andhar Yatra (Passage to Darkness), Chanakya Vishnugupta, Raaste (Roads), and Satyashodhak, a play on the life and times of Jotirao Phule.
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.
Georg Lukacs
Georg Lukács (1885–1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of Western Marxism. He contributed the ideas of reification and class consciousness to Marxist philosophy and theory, and his literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture following the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
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).
Ghassan Hage
Ghassan Hage is professor of anthropology and social theory at the university of Melbourne, Australia. He has held many visiting professorships around the world including at the American University of Beirut, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, University of Copenhagen, University of Amsterdam and Harvard. His work includes White Nation (2000), Against Paranoid Nationalism (2003) and Alter-Politics (2015).
Ghassan Kanafani
A political activist, artist, and writer who gave his life for the Palestinian people. He took part in founding the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and is the accomplished author of many short stories, novels, plays, articles, and studies. Kanafani was assassinated in Beirut by the Israeli Mossad in 1972.
Githa Hariharan
Githa Hariharan's work includes novels, short stories, essays, newspaper articles and columns. Her first novel – The Thousand Faces of Night – won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1993. Since then, she has published the novels The Ghosts of Vasu Master, When Dreams Travel, In Times of Siege, and Fugitive Histories, a collection of short stories, The Art of Dying, and a book of stories for children, The Winning Team. For more on her work, see www.githahariharan.com. Githa Hariharan is a member of the Palestine Solidarity Committee in India, and a convenor of the Indian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (InCACBI).
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Gopalkrishna Gandhi took voluntary retirement from the Indian Administrative Service in 1992, was Director of The Nehru Centre, London, from 1992 to 1996, and later High Commissioner for India in South Africa and Sri Lanka, Ambassador of India in Norway, secretary to the President of India and Governor of West Bengal.
Goving Pansare
Govind Pansare (26 November 1933 – 20 February 2015) was one of Maharashtra's leading Communist leaders and public intellectuals. Starting out in the Rashtra Seva Dal, he joined the Communist Party of India in 1952, and went on to become its Maharashtra State Secretary, as well as a member of the party's National Executive. An active trade unionist, he was also a labour lawyer. Pansare took part in many social reform movements in Maharashtra, including movements against superstition and for inter-caste marriage. He was a prolific writer and speaker, and authored at least ten books, including the bestselling Shivaji Kon Hota?
Greg Albo
Greg Albo teaches political economy at the Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto. He is currently co-editor of the Socialist Register. He is also on the editorial boards of Studies in Political Economy, Relay, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Canadian Dimension, The Bullet and Historical Materialism (England). Co-editor of A Different Kind of State: Popular Power and Democratic Administration and author of numerous articles in journals such as Studies in Political Economy, Socialist Register, Canadian Dimension, and Monthly Review.
Gurdev Singh Sidhu
Gurdev Singh Sidhu earned a Ph.D. in Punjabi Literature from Punjab University, Chandigarh, in 1974. His previous books include Revolutionary Thinker Bhagat Singh, the Martyr; Proscribed Punjabi Publications; Komagata Maru: Not Just a Voyage; and as editor, Proceedings of Lahore Conspiracy Case; and Proceedings of Babbar Akali Case: Liberation of Gurdwaras to Liberation of Mother Land.
Harkishan Singh Surjeet
Harkishan Singh Surjeet (23 March 1916 - 1 August 2008) was a veteran Communist leader, one of the core that formed the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 1964 serving as its General Secretary from 1992 to 2005. He was also an important figure in the farmers' struggles in India which he led through the Kisan Sabha. He is the author of 'Land Reforms in India and Happenings in Punjab'.
Harsh Mander
Harsh Mander, 56, social worker and writer, is a former civil servant. He has taught at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; St Stephen's College, Delhi; California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco; LBS National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie; and the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi.
Harsho Mohan Chattoraj
Harsho Mohan Chattoraj is a graphic novelist and illustrator based in Kolkata. He has been involved in the creation of comics and graphic novels since the turn of the century and has done art for newspapers, advertising agencies and commercial clients in India, USA and the UK. Some of his recent works are Destiny Awakes, Operation Decay, Pagla Sahib’s Grave and Chotushkon.
I I Rubin
Isaac Ilych Rubin was born in Russia in 1886. He was an active participant in the Revolution and afterwards became a professor of marxist economics and a research assistant at the Marx-Engels Institute. He was arrested in 1930, apparently for having a close association with David Riazanov whom Stalin disliked. He was subsequently 'removed from among the living'.
Ibbar Rabbi
पेशे से पत्रकार रहे इब्बार रब्बी का मूल नाम रवीन्द्र प्रसाद है। खाँसती हुई नदी, घोषणापत्र, लोगबाग, वर्षा में भीगकर उनके प्रमुख कविता संग्रह हैं। कविता के लिए उन्हें हिंदी अकादमी, दिल्ली का साहित्यकार सम्मान, विजय देव नारायण साही सम्मान, शमशेर सम्मान, कविता समय और राजकमल चौधरी सम्मान आदि मिल चुके हैं। वह दलितों-आदिवासियों के बीच सक्रिय रह चुके हैं।
Irfan Habib
Irfan Habib, Professor Emeritus at the Aligarh Muslim University, is the author of The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 15561707 (1963; revised edition 1999), An Atlas of the Mughal Empire (1982), Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception (1995), Medieval India: The Study of a Civilization (2007), Economic History of Medieval India, 12001500 (with collaborators) (2011) and Atlas of Ancient Indian History (with Faiz Habib) (2012). He has co-edited The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I (1982), UNESCOS History of Humanity, Vols. 4 and 5, and UNESCOS History of Central Asia, Vol. 5. He is the General Editor of the Peoples History of India, and has authored several volumes in the series.
Ismat Chughtai
ISMAT CHUGTAI (1915-1991), one of Urdu's boldest and most outspoken women writers, played an important role in the development of the modern Urdu short story as we know it today. Not only did she make strides in the areas of style and technique, she also led her female contemporaries on a remarkable journey of self-awareness and undaunted creative expression. Women Unlimited and Kali for Women pioneered the translation of much of Chugtai's work in English, making available her most significant writings for the first time. Among these are My Friend, My Enemy: Essays, Reminiscences, Portraits (Kali for Women, 2001), A Chugtai Collection [which includes "The Quilt and Other Stories", "The Heart Breaks Free" and "The Wild One" (Women Unlimited, 2003), The Crooked Line (Women Unlimited, 2003) and A Very strange Man (Women Unlimited, forthcoming).
Jaisingh
जयसिंह फिल्म-समीक्षक और स्तंभकार हैं। उनकी दो किताबें प्रकाशित हैंः भारतीय सिनेमा का सफरनामा और सिनेमा बीच बाजार। उन्होंने विभिन्न विषयों की सौ से अधिक पुस्तकों का संपादन किया है और एक लघु फिल्म का निर्माण और निर्देशन भी। वह भारतीय सूचना सेवा से संबद्ध हैं और ‘रोज़गार समाचार’ में बतौर संपादक कार्यरत हैं।
Jawarimal Parakh
जवरीमल्ल पारख साहित्य, सिनेमा और मीडिया पर नियमित लेखन करते रहे हैं। अब तक उनकी पंद्रह पुस्तकें प्रकाशित हैं। उन्होंने टेलीविजन के लिए शैक्षिक और कथात्मक पटकथा लेखन भी किया है। वे भारतीय भाषा परिषद द्वारा प्रकाशित हिंदी साहित्य ज्ञानकोश (सात खंड) के संपादक मंडल के सदस्य रह चुके हैं। उन्हें प्रो. कुंवरपाल सिंह स्मृति सम्मान, घासीराम वर्मा साहित्य पुरस्कार, राजस्थान साहित्य अकादमी का विशिष्ट साहित्यकार सम्मान प्राप्त हुए हैं। वर्ष 2017 में इंदिरा गांधी मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय, नई दिल्ली से प्रोफेसर पद से सेवानिवृत्ति के बाद अब स्वतंत्र लेखन।
Jayati Ghosh
Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has authored and co-edited several books and more than 120 scholarly articles. She is Executive Secretary of International Development Economics Associates (IDEAS - www.networkideas.org) and Trustee of Economic Research Foundation (www.macroscan.org).
Jitheesh P.M.
Jitheesh P.M. holds an M.Phil degree in history from Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala. He contributes to various Indian and foreign publications such as Frontline, The Hindu, The Caravan and Monthly Review. His writings have been translated into more than half a dozen Indian and foreign languages.
Johanna Wallin
Johanna Wallin is a writer, coordinator and communicator who joined The Freedom Theatre in 2008 as a resource developer. For the past six years she has managed The Freedom Theatre’s international communication, including website, social media, press releases, annual reports, publicity materials and publications. Wallin is also involved in strategic management and organisational development as a member of The Freedom Theatre’s executive committee. She has a degree of Bachelor of Arts in cultural anthropology from Uppsala University, Sweden. She has extensive experience within civil society organisations, among them the Swedish Development Forum and the Palestine Solidarity Association. She has published numerous articles and a book, I will never again walk alone – Palestine in the shadow of occupation (published in Swedish in 2009, Ruin Förlag), and is frequently engaged as a speaker at public seminars and events.
John Bellamy Foster
John Bellamy Foster is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of Monthly Review (New York). His most recent books are The Endless Crisis (with Robert W. McChesney, New York: Monthly Review Press, 2012) and Marx and the Earth (with Paul Burkett, Chicago: Haymarket, 2017).
John Smith
John Smith is an independent researcher and writer based in Sheffield, United Kingdom. He did his PhD from the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis (2016), which received the first Paul A. Baran–Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award by the Monthly Review Foundation for an original monograph on the political economy of imperialism.
Justice K. Chandru
JUSTICE K. CHANDRU is an advocate and former judge of Madras High Court. He disposed of 96,000 cases during his tenure as a Judge. A 1993 case that Chandru argued as a lawyer is the subject of the hit Tamil film Jai Bhim (2021, dir. T.J. Gnanavel), in which his character is played by the actor Suriya. He writes in Tamil and English, and his previous book was the bestselling Listen to My Case!: When Women Approach the Courts of Tamil Nadu (LeftWord, 2021).
K.A. Manikumar
K.A. Manikumar retired as Professor of History, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli. He is the author of Vellore Revolt, 1806 (Allied Publishers & VIT University, 2007) and A Colonial Economy in the Great Depression, Madras, 1929-37 (Orient Longman, 2003). His research interests are social conflict and the Dalit Movement.
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।
Kanwal Dhaliwal
Kanwal Dhaliwal is a painter, sculptor, author, and translator. He did his B.F.A. in Painting (1984) from Government College of Arts, Chandigarh, and an M.A. in Art in Architecture (2002) from the University of East London. He also has a Master’s degree in Russian (1991) from the Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad. He has previously translated Volga se Ganga to Panjabi.
Karl Marx
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Germany, he later became stateless and spent much of his life in London in the United Kingdom. He published numerous books during his lifetime, the most notable being The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867–1894).
Kohei Saito
Kohei Saito received his Ph.D. from Humboldt University in Berlin. He is currently associate professor of political economy at Osaka City University. He has published articles and reviews on Marx’s ecology, including “The Emergence of Marx’s Critique of Modern Agriculture,” and “Marx’s Ecological Notebooks,” both in Monthly Review. He is working on editing the complete works of Marx and Engels, Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) Volume IV/18, which includes a number of Marx’s natural scientific notebooks.
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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.
Leo Panitch
Leo Victor Panitch, (born May 3, 1945, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy at York University. Since 1985, he has served as co-editor of the Socialist Register, which describes itself as "an annual survey of movements and ideas from the standpoint of the independent new left". Panitch himself sees the Register as playing a major role in developing Marxism's conceptual framework for advancing a democratic, co-operative and egalitarian, socialist alternative to capitalist competition, exploitation and insecurity.
M.G. Radhakrishnan
M.G. Radhakrishnan is an author and senior journalist. He retired as Editor-in-Chief of Asianet News Malayalam Network. He translated P. Govinda Pillai's biography of E.M.S. Namboodiripad, and their co-authored book, Gramsci’s Thought (LeftWord Books, 2021) from Malayalam to English.
M.K. Bhadrakumar
M.K. BHADRAKUMAR served as a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service for 3 decades, with postings including India's ambassador to Uzbekistan (1995–98) and to Turkey (1998–2001). He was also posted, in various capacities, at Moscow, Islamabad, Bonn, Colombo, Seoul, Kuwait and Kabul. He is Russian-speaking, and writes regularly on strategic affairs for publications in India and abroad.
Mahdi Amel
Mahdi Amel (1936–1987; given name Hassan Hamdan) was a professor at the Lebanese University and a central committee member of Lebanon’s Communist Party (LCP). He was a prominent theoretician of colonialism and ‘underdevelopment’ in an Arab context during the era of national liberatio
Malini Bhattacharya
Malini Bhattacharya (b. 1943) retired as Professor of English and Director, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She is a well-known activist in the women’s movement, and is President of the All India Democratic Women’s Association. She is a prolific author, translator, playwright, and poet. She was elected to the Lok Sabha as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate from the Jadavpur constituency in 1989, and re-elected in 1991.
Manik Bandyopadhyay
Manik Bandyopadhyay (birth name Prabodh Kumar Bandyopadhyay, 19 May 1908–3 December 1956) is a major figure of twentieth-century Bengali literature. He authored 38 novels and 306 stories. His best-known works include Padma Nadir Majhi (The Boatman on the River Padma, 1936), Putul Nacher Itikatha (The Puppet’s Tale, 1936), Shahartali (Suburbia, 1941), Chatushkone (The Quadrilateral, 1948), Swadhinatar Swad (Taste of Freedom, 1951) and Halud Nadi Sabuj Ban (Yellow River Green Forest, 1956). He was born in Dumka, Santal Parganas. His father was a government official who was transferred all over Bengal, giving young Manik a wide exposure to diverse places, cultures, dialects, and people. He became a member of the Progressive Writers’ Association in the early 1940s, and joined the Communist Party of India in 1944. In ill health and plagued by financial problems, he died at the early age of 48. His unfailing commitment to his creative objective gave him an iconic status as an ‘engaged’ author, a ‘pen-wielding proletarian’, according to the author’s own description.
Manjeet H. Singh
Along with her husband, the late advocate Hardev Singh, Manjeet H. Singh has, over the past four decades, documented and untiringly pursued the cases of the victims and survivors of the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom. The author is passionate about reading and social work. Her personal library holds over 6,000 books, including rare titles. For over twenty years, she has worked to support marginal farmers in Punjab, many of whom have been adversely impacted by the Green Revolution. She co-founded an organization to assist families of farmers who died by suicide and launched the Punjab Farmers’ Trust to provide low-interest loans to those transitioning to organic farming. She continues to support the widows of the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom, who live in abject neglect in the ‘Widows’ Ghetto’, Tilak Vihar. She is currently working on a book on the history of Punjab.
MANJEET SINGH
Along with her husband, the late advocate Hardev Singh, Manjeet H. Singh has, over the past four decades, documented and untiringly pursued the cases of the victims and survivors of the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom. The author is passionate about reading and social work. Her personal library holds over 6,000 books, including rare titles. For over twenty years, she has worked to support marginal farmers in Punjab, many of whom have been adversely impacted by the Green Revolution. She co-founded an organization to assist families of farmers who died by suicide and launched the Punjab Farmers’ Trust to provide low-interest loans to those transitioning to organic farming. She continues to support the widows of the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom, who live in abject neglect in the ‘Widows’ Ghetto’, Tilak Vihar. She is currently working on a book on the history of Punjab.
Manolo De Los Santos
Manolo De Los Santos is the co-executive director of the People’s Forum and is a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He co-edited, most recently, Viviremos: Venezuela vs. Hybrid War (LeftWord Books/1804 Books, 2020) and Comrade of the Revolution: Selected Speeches of Fidel Castro (LeftWord Books/1804 Books, 2021). He is a co-coordinator of the People’s Summit for Democracy.
Maria Berrios
Maria Berrios is a sociologist and independent curator. Apart from collaborative art projects, she writes extensively on art and politics in Latin America. She is the co-founder of the editorial collective vaticanochico and lives and works between Santiago de Chile and London.
Mário de Andrade
Mário de Andrade—a founding member of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola, as well as Cabral’s long-time friend and comrade—follows the arc of Cabral's political thought as it transforms over the course of his life. Presented in its first ever English translation, Amílcar Cabral: A Political Life in Motion is a portrait of a keen and agile leader who knew that to lead the people was to know them.
Masturah Alatas
Masturah Alatas is the author of a tale about climate change, The Girl Who Made It Snow in Singapore (Ethos Books, 2008) and The Life in the Writing (Marshall Cavendish, 2010), a memoir-biography of Malaysian sociologist, Syed Hussein Alatas, who was also her father. Born in Singapore, she worked as a journalist in Malaysia before moving to Italy in 1992 where she teaches English at the Univerity of Macerata. A regular contributor to Counterpunch, Masturah has completed a novel and is working on another.
Maude Barlow And Tony Clarke
MAUDE BARLOW and TONY CLARKE are long-term activists on trade and justice issues whose campaigning lives have intertwined for many years. With their working lives closely connected for many years, Barlow and Clarke are now recognized as two of the most respected citizen leaders in Canada and in the global justice movement generally. Both have been featured speakers at the World Social Forums in Porto Alegre and Mumbai.
Max Blumenthal
Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author whose articles and video documentaries have appeared in New York Times, Daily Beast, Guardian, Huffington Post, Salon, Al Jazeera English and many other publications. He is the author of Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel and Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered the Party.
Maya John
Maya John teaches history at the University of Delhi (India). She is a prominent social activist who has been writing on issues of health, education, labour, gender, social movements, transformative politics and social theory. She has recently co-edited Who Cares? Care Extraction and the Struggles of Indian Health Workers.
Maya Joshi
Maya Joshi is Associate Professor of English Literature at Lady Shri Ram College, but considers it her good fortune to have been exposed from childhood to literatures other than English and subjects other than Literature. Her publications include a critical edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; a co-edited volume on Buddhist philosophy, Pramana: Dharmakirti and the Indian Philosophical Debate (Manohar, 2010); a translation with critical introduction of selections from Rahul Sankrityayan’s Baisvin Sadi for The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, ed. Tarun Saint (2019); and a chapter on Sankrityayan and Ambedkar’s engagements with Buddha and Marx in India and Civilizational Futures: Papers from The Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics, ed. Vinay Lal (2019). In 2017–18, she was Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, working on an intellectual biography of Rahul Sankrityayan, whom she has enjoyed reading, speaking and writing on for over a decade.
Maya Pandit
Maya Pandit is a poet, translator, teacher developer and an activist who has been involved with the women’s movement in India and alternative theatre movement in Maharashtra for the last three decades. An accomplished translator, she works with Marathi and English and has translated several plays, autobiographies and fictional narratives across the two languages.
Meera Velayudhan
Meera Velayudhan is a policy analyst and former president of Indian Association for Women’s Studies (IAWS). She has been involved in gender studies from its inception in India in early 1980s, her research focusing on strategies of organization of women in historical and contemporary contexts.
Michael Denning
MICHAEL DENNING is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and the co-director of Yale’s Initiative on Labor and Culture. He is the author of Culture in the Age of Three Worlds; The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century; Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America; and Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller. He coordinates the Working Group on Globalization and Culture, whose collective work includes “Going into Debt,” published online in Social Text’s Periscope, and “Spaces and Times of Occupation,” published in Transforming Anthropology. In 2014, he received the Bode-Pearson lifetime achievement award from the American Studies Association.
Michelle Williams
is Associate Professor at the Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa and is the Chairperson of the Global Labour University (GLU) Programme, also at Wits. Her publications include The Roots of Participatory Democracy: Democratic Communists in South Africa and Kerala (2008), and the edited volumes The End of the Developmental State? (2014), Marxisms in the 21st Century (2013), South Africa and India: Shaping the Global South (2011), and Labour in the Global South (2012).
Mythily Sivaraman
Mythily Sivaraman is an activist and a scholar. She was the national Vice President of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA). She has been involved in village mobilization and social activism, particularly with factory workers, women and dalits. Her essays have been published in several leading journals. She was the editor of The Radical Review (1969–73), and is the author of Fragments of a Life: A Family Archive (New Delhi 2006).
N. Ram
N. Ram, a former editor-in-chief and publisher of The Hindu, is a Director of The Hindu Publishing Group. He is the recipient of several awards including the Padma Bhushan, the Sri Lanka Ratna, and the Raja Ram Mohan Roy Award for contributions to journalism. He is the author of, or contributor to, several books, including Riding the Nuclear Tiger for LeftWord (1999). Ram represented Tamil Nadu in the Ranji Trophy cricket tournament.
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is a Canadian author and journalist who authored three landmark books — No Logo (1999), Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014), which Amitav Ghosh called ‘one of the most important books of the decade’. In 2016, Naomi won the Sydney Peace Prize for her work on climate change. Her book Fences and Windows was published by LeftWord Books in 2002.
Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah is a theatre actor and director, founder of the theatre company Motley, and a film actor. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, three National Film Awards, three Filmfare Awards, and an award for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. He is the author of And Then One Day: A Memoir.
Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o won the Lotus Prize for Literature in 1973. He is the author of such celebrated novels as Weep Not, Child (1964), A Grain of Wheat (1967), Petals of Blood (1977) and Wizard of the Crow (2004). He faced harsh repression for his work, including a year in prison, where he wrote Devil on the Cross on prison-issue toilet paper.
Ninan Koshy
NINAN KOSHY served as Director, Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, World Council of Churches (WCC), Geneva, from 1981 to 1991 and earlier as its Executive Secretary for seven years. He was Visiting Fellow, Human Rights Programmes, Harvard Law School during 1991-92. He writes regularly on National and International politics, human rights, disarmament, education and religion, and lives in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
Ninotchka Rosca
Ninotchka Rosca is a novelist and journalist. Her two novels – State of War (1988) and Twice Blessed (1992) – are considered classics of modern Philippine literature. She interviewed and co-wrote Jose Ma. Sison: At Home in the World, a book about the founding chairman of the reestablished Communist Party of the Philippines.
Nitasha Kaul
Nitasha Kaul is an academic, novelist, and poet, and is currently Associate Professor, Politics and International Relations, at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster. Over the last two decades, her work has addressed questions of identity, democracy, political economy, social/feminist/postcolonial theory, Hindu nationalism, Kashmir, and Bhutan. Her books include the scholarly monograph, Imagining Economics Otherwise: encounters with identity/ difference (2007); and the novels Residue (2014) and Future Tense (2020).
Nitheesh Narayanan
Nitheesh Narayanan is Editor, Student Struggle, and a central secretariat member of SFI. He is a PhD scholar at the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, JNU, and a researcher at Tricontinental India Research. He is co-editor of two books, The 1921 Uprising in Malabar: A Collection of Communist Writings (LeftWord, 2022) and Ashayasamaranngalude Lokam (Chintha Publishers), and co-translator of the Malayalam edition of Aijaz Ahmad and Vijay Prashad, Nothing Human is Alien to Me (Chintha Publishers).
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.
Ola Johansson
Ola Johansson is Associate Professor in Contemporary Performance Practice at the Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts (ResCen), Middlesex University (UK). He has specialized in progressive and applied performance and has published two books: Community Theatre and AIDS (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Performance and Philosophy: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Performing Arts (VDM Verlag, 2008). Ola wrote the concept and manuscript for the production Politico (2014), was the artistic director for the production Beyond Vice (2013) and has exhibited artworks and produced a TV documentary.
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.
Orijit Sen
Orijit Sen, born in 1963, is an Indian graphic artist, muralist, and designer. In 1990, he co-founded People Tree — a collaborative studio and store for artists, designers and craftspeople. Along with his wife and fellow designer Gurpreet Sidhu, he continues to lead People Tree’s design studio — developing in-house projects as well as partnerships with organisations working in the arts and social sectors. Comics and visual storytelling have been an important strand in his diverse set of practices as a visual artist. His book River Of Stories came out in 1994, and is considered to be India’s first graphic novel in English. He is also co-founder of the Pao Collective of comics artists, and chief editor of Comixense, a comics quarterly for young readers. Orijit has served as Mario Miranda Chair Visiting Professor at Goa University, where he initiated an experimental arts and research project entitled the ‘Mapping Mapusa Market Project’, which involved students, educationists and artists. He was also Visiting Professor at the Visual Arts Department of Ashoka University. His work has been extensively published, exhibited and installed in India as well as internationally.
P. Sainath
Palagummi Sainath (born 1957), one of India’s best-known journalists, is the founding editor of People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI). He was The Hindu’s Rural Affairs Editor till 2014. Previously, he worked at Blitz and United News of India. He has lectured and taught at various institutions, including the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. Sainath is the author of the bestselling Everybody Loves a Good Drought. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including, in 2007, the Ramon Magsaysay Award. Two documentary films on his work, Nero’s Guests and A Tribe of his Own, have received over 20 international awards.
Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Oliver Cockburn (born 5 March 1950) is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times and, since 1991, the Independent. He has also worked as a correspondent in Moscow and Washington and is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books. He has written three books on Iraq's recent history. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006, the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009,[1] Foreign Commentator of the Year (Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards 2013, Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year (British Journalism Awards 2014), Foreign Reporter of the Year (The Press Awards For 2014).
Peter Mertens
Peter Mertens is a leader of the Workers’ Party of Belgium. He has served as a member of the Chamber of Representatives since 2019, and as a Municipal Councillor in Antwerp since 2013. He is the author of They Have Forgotten Us: The Working Class, Care and the Looming Crisis (LeftWord 2021).
Pinarayi Vijayan
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. He is a member of the party's Polit Bureau, and served as Secretary of the Kerala State Committee from 1998 to 2015.
Pindiga Ambedkar
Pindiga Ambedkar works at Tricontinental Research. He completed his MA in Development Studies from TISS, Mumbai (2006-2008). He was the vice president of the TISS students’ union during 2007-2008. He also did his MPhil in Sociology from CSSS, JNU(2009-2011). His research interests are Sociology of Education and Labour Issues. He is associated with Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch, Delhi State.
Prabhat Patnaik
Prabhat Patnaik retired as Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Time, Inflation and Growth (1988), Economics and Egalitarianism (1991), Whatever Happened to Imperialism and other essays (1995), Accumulation and Stability under Capitalism (1997), The Retreat to Unfreedom (2003), The Value of Money (2008) and Re-Envisioning Socialism (2011). He is the Editor of the journal Social Scientist.
Prabhat Singh
प्रभात सिंह स्वभाव से फ़ोटोग्राफ़र हैं, यों अख़बारनवीस, लेखक और अनुवादक भी हैं। थारू जनजाति पर एक मोनोग्राफ़, कुंभ के मेले पर एक, और अख़बारनवीसी पर दो किताबें छपी हैं। मार्क टुली के कहानी संग्रह और रस्किन बॉन्ड की आत्मकथा का हिंदी में अनुवाद किया है। अरसे तक अमर उजाला के संपादक रहे। इन दिनों संवाद न्यूज़ के संपादक हैं।
Prabir Purkayastha
Prabir Purkayastha is an engineer and a science activist in the power, telecom and software sectors. He is a founding member of the Delhi Science Forum. He is the author of Knowledge as Commons: Towards Inclusive Science and Technology (LeftWord 2023) and co-author, along with Vijay Prashad, of Enron Blowout: Corporate Capitalism and Theft of the Global Commons (LeftWord 2002), and along with Ninan Koshy, M.K. Bhadrakumar, of Uncle Sam’s Nuclear Cabin (LeftWord 2007). He is co-editor with Indranil and Richa Chintan of Political Journeys in Health: Essays by and for Amit Sengupta (LeftWord 2021). He is the founder of Newsclick.in.
Prakash Karat
Prakash Karat is a member of the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He served as General Secretary of the party from 2005 to 2015. He is the author of Language and Nationality Politics in India (1972) and Subordinate Ally: The Nuclear Deal and India-US Strategic Relations (LeftWord 2008), and editor of A World to Win—Essays on the Communist Manifesto (LeftWord 1999) and Across Time and Continents: A Tribute to Victor Kiernan (LeftWord 2003). He is Managing Director of Naya Rasta Publishers Private Limited, of which LeftWord Books is an imprint.
R. Ramakumar
R. Ramakumar is an economist, with a Ph.D. from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His areas of work are agricultural economics, agrarian studies and rural development. He is presently Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
Rahul Sankrityayan
Rahul Sankrityayan (1893–1963) was an Indian polymath who is often remembered as the father of Hindi travel writing. He was also known for his role in the revival of Buddhism in India, as co-founder of the Bihar unit of the Communist Party, and a pioneering explorer-traveller. His choice of Hindi for the bulk of his writing marks him as a contributor to a popular progressive intellectual discourse in that language. Apart from his iconic travelogues that record journeys into remote Himalayan regions and across Asia and Europe, he wrote on travel (Ghumakkar Shastr), made significant contributions to history (including the Sahitya Akademi Award winning Madhya Asia ka Itihas), philosophy (Darshan Digdarshan), memoir-writing (Meri Jeevan-Yatra, Mere Asahyog ke Saathi), polemics (Bhago Nahin Duniya ko Badlo, Tumhari Kshaya), biography (of travellers, thinkers, social reformers, political leaders), drama (Bhojpuri), translation (of Tajik novels, as well as The Communist Manifesto), lexicography, critical commentary on and emendation of rare Buddhist philosophical texts recovered from Tibet, and diverse fiction, mostly historical. He was imprisoned for his anti-colonial activism for about three years by the British. In 1963, he was conferred the Padma Bhushan.
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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.'
Raosaheb Kasbe
Raosaheb Kasbe is an eminent political scientist and scholar on Ambedkar and Dalit movements in India. He is the author of several widely acclaimed books in Marathi. He taught Political Science for over three decades at Sangamner College in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, and retired as Chair Professor, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Studies Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University. He is currently President, Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad.
Revati Laul
Revati Laul is an independent journalist and film-maker. She is the author of The Anatomy of Hate (2018). The book is the first-ever account of the perpetrators of the 2002 pogrom against Muslims that took place in the state of Gujarat in India. Revati has worked for NDTV and Tehelka, and also written for publications like The Quint, Scroll.in and The Hindustan Times. She is based in New Delhi.
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.
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg (5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and revolutionary socialist of Polish-Jewish descent who became a naturalized German citizen. She was, successively, a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD), and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1915, after the SPD supported German involvement in World War I, she and Karl Liebknecht co-founded the anti-war Spartakusbund ("Spartacus League"), which eventually became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). During the German Revolution, she co-founded the newspaper Die Rote Fahne ("The Red Flag"), the central organ of the Spartacist movement. She considered the Spartacist uprising of January 1919 a blunder, but supported it as events unfolded. With the crushing of the revolt by Friedrich Ebert's social democratic government and by the Freikorps (World War I veterans who banded together into right-wing paramilitary groups), Freikorps troops captured Luxemburg, Liebknecht and some of their supporters. Luxemburg was shot and her body thrown in the Landwehr Canal in Berlin.
Rossen Djagalov
Rossen Djagalov is an assistant professor of Russian at New York University, a research fellow of the Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, HSE , Moscow, and a member of the editorial collective of LeftEast. His book From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third World is published by McGill-Queens University Press.
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.
Samir Amin
Samir Amin was born in Cairo, the son of an Egyptian father and a French mother (both medical doctors). He spent his childhood and youth in Port Said; there he attended a French High School, leaving in 1947 with a Baccalauréat. From 1947 to 1957 he studied in Paris, gaining a diploma in political science (1952) before graduating in statistics (1956) and economics (1957). In his autobiography Itinéraire Intellectuel (1990) he wrote that in order to spend a substantial amount of time in "militant action" he could devote only a minimum of time to preparing for his university exams.
Sanjay Kundan
1969 में पटना में जन्म। पटना विश्वविद्यालय से हिंदी साहित्य में एमए। कागज के प्रदेश में, चुप्पी का शोर, योजनाओं का शहर, तनी हुई रस्सी पर उनके कविता संग्रह हैं, जबकि बॉस की पार्टी, श्यामलाल का अकेलापन कहानी संग्रह और टूटने के बाद तथा तीन ताल उपन्यास। कुछ लघु और नुक्कड़ नाटकों का भी लेखन। आवर हिस्ट्री, देयर हिस्ट्री, हूज हिस्ट्री (रोमिला थापर), एनिमल फार्म (जॉर्ज ऑरवेल), लेटर्स ऑन सेज़ां (रिल्के), पैशन इंडिया (जेवियर मोरो) और वॉशिंगटन बुलेट्स (विजय प्रशाद) का हिंदी में अनुवाद। भारतभूषण अग्रवाल पुरस्कार और हेमंत स्मृति सम्मान सहित अनेक पुरस्कारों से सम्मानित। वाम प्रकाशन में संपादक।
Satarupa Chakraborty
Satarupa Chakraborty is a researcher at Tricontinental Research. She is also a PhD candidate in the Center for Philosophy at JNU. Satarupa is currently a member of the state committee of All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) Delhi. She was the general secretary of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union during 2016-2017. She completed her Masters from University of Hyderabad in 2012, and earned an MPhil degree in Philosophy from JNU in 2015.
Satyendra More
Com. Satyendra More (1929–2003) was R.B. More’s son. Even as a child he took part in cultural activities of the Communist Party and, as a student, he was active in the AISF and the Bombay Students’ Union. Later, he was active as a trade-union organiser and in 1968 led a successful strike demanding implementation of the recommendations of the Third Pay Commission for government employees. He later became a full-time trade-union worker. He also organised Adivasis and peasants from Raigad district in the Konkan region during the Emergency. He was elected to the Maharashtra Assembly from Dharavi in Bombay in 1978 and, as MLA, worked for the slum dwellers of the area. He wrote in and edited several Party journals, and authored several books, including an important work on the problems of housing for the working class, a book on the caste question and one on Ambedkar’s life as a student. His death in 2003 was mourned by many in the sphere of social and political activism.
Sevim Dagdelen
Sevim Dagdelen is since 2005 member of the German parliament, the Bundestag. She is member in the Committee on Foreign Affairs and foreign policy spokesperson for the party Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice (BSW) in the German Bundestag. Dagdelen is member of the German-Chinese, the German-Indian and the German-US Parliamentary Friendship Groups. She is a leading expert in Germany on security and foreign policy, and a long-standing member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
Shalini Singh
Shalini Singh is a Delhi-based journalist, who has written for The Week and the Hindustan Times. In 2012 she won the Prem Bhatia Award for excellence in environmental reporting. Shalini is a founding trustee at the People’s Archive of Rural India. In 2013, she was described by Elle as ‘a headliner, one of journalism’s new guard that asks difficult questions, risks life and limb, and will stop at nothing for the truth.’
Shankar Dayal Tiwari
शंकर दयाल तिवारी (1921-1989) जिंदगी भर कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी से जुड़े रहे। वे मार्क्सवादी कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी (CPI-M) की केंद्रीय कमिटी के सदस्य और उत्तर प्रदेश राज्य कमिटी के सचिव भी रहे। कॉमरेड तिवारी के पुत्र अतुल तिवारी ने ‘पापा’ शीर्षक लेख में उन्हें भावपूर्ण तरीके से याद किया है। ये आत्मीय याद एक कॉमरेड के जीवन और उसके कठिन संघर्षों से परिचित कराती है। संस्कृतिकर्मी अतुल तिवारी राष्ट्रीय नाट्य विद्यालय (NSD) के स्नातक और नाटक-सिनेमा की दुनिया के जाने-माने लेखक हैं।
Shujaat Bukhari
Shujaat Bukhari (1968-2018) was a journalist based in Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir). He was the Srinagar correspondent for Frontline and was the editor of Rising Kashmir. Between 1997 and 2012, he was a correspondent for The Hindu. Shujaat started the Urdu daily Buland Kashmir and the Urdu weekly Kashmir Parcham as well as the Kashmiri language paper Sangarmal. He was president of the Abadi Markaz Kamraz, a literary forum to promote the Kashmiri language. An honest and well-informed journalist, Shujaat survived three assassination attempts before he was brutally gunned down outside his office on June 14, 2018. He is survived by his wife Tahmeena and their two children.
Sitaram Yechury
Sitaram Yechury (1952–2024) was General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from 2015 till his death. He served as member of the Rajya Sabha for two terms, from 2005 to 2017. As a student leader with the Students’ Federation of India, he was arrested during the Emergency (1975–77). Following the lifting of the Emergency, he was elected President of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union thrice over two years, 1977–78. He was elected to the Central Committee of the CPI(M) in 1984, and to its Polit Bureau in 1992. A prolific speaker and writer, several collections of his speeches, columns and articles have been published.
Subhash Gatade
Subhash Gatade is a left activist and author. He is the author of Charvak ke Vaaris (Hindi, 2018), Ambedkar ani Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (Marathi, 2016), Godse’s Children: Hindutva Terror in India (2011) and The Saffron Condition (2011). His writings for children include Pahad Se Uncha Aadmi (2010).
Subodh Roy
Subodh Roy (1916–2006) was the youngest participant (aged 14) in the Chittagong Armoury Raid in 1930, led by Surya Sen (Masterda). Affectionately called Jhunku, Roy took part in the famous battle on Jalalabad Hill, where the revolutionaries confronted the armed might of the British Empire. He was eventually captured, tortured, tried and sentenced, and was among the first batch of prisoners deported to the Cellular Jail in Port Blair in 1932. In jail, he got introduced to Communist ideas and literature, and joined the Communist Party of India in 1939 after his release. When the CPI split in 1964, he went with the CPI(M), and became a member of the West Bengal State Committee. Subodh Roy made a major scholarly contribution to the history of the communist movement in India, and is the editor of Communism in India: Unpublished Documents, 1934-45 (Calcutta 1976).
Sudhanva Deshpande
Sudhanva Deshpande is a theatre director and theatre and film actor. He has been a member of Jana Natya Manch since 1987. He has co-directed two films on the theatre legend Habib Tanvir and his company Naya Theatre. He is the author of Halla Bol: The Death and Life of Safdar Hashmi (LeftWord 2020), editor of Theatre of the Streets: The Jana Natya Manch Experience (Janam 2007), and co-editor of Our Stage: Pleasures and Perils of Theatre Practice in India (Tulika 2008). He has held teaching positions at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Since 1998, he has been Managing Editor, LeftWord Books.
Sumangala Damodaran
Sumangala Damodaran, formerly at Ambedkar University Delhi, works in the areas of Development Studies and Popular Music Studies. She is also a musician and composer who has archived and written about Indian resistance music traditions, and done collaborative performative and scholarly work on music with poets, musicians and academics from South Africa, China, Tanzania and Ethiopia.
Suraj Yengde
Suraj Yengde is a W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow at Harvard University. His prior appointments were Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, a non-resident fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, and was part of the founding team of the Initiative for Institutional Anti-Racism and Accountability (IARA) at Harvard University. Dr. Suraj Yengde is also a DPhil candidate at the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford. Originally from Nanded, India, he is the author of Caste Matters (2019), and co-author, with Anand Teltumbde, of The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical Reflections (2018).
Susan Abulhawa
Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian novelist and poet. Her most recent novel, The Blue Between Sky and Water (Bloomsbury, 2015), is an international best seller, translated into 28 languages. She is also the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, a volunteer organization dedicated to upholding the Right to Play.
T. Jayaraman
T. Jayaraman is currently Professor and Chairperson, Centre for Science, Technology and Society, School of Habitat Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Trained as a theoretical physicist and having worked for several years in that discipline, he has subsequently shifted his academic interests to questions that broadly relate to science and society. His current particular interests include climate change and climate policy, science and technology policy in India including nuclear policy and particular aspects of the philosophy and history of science and technology, with special reference to the Indian context.
T.M. Thomas Isaac
T.M. Thomas Isaac is Distinguished Honorary Fellow at the Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He served as Minister of Finance of Kerala for two terms, from 2006 to 2011, and from 2016 to 2021. Previously, during his tenure as a member of the Kerala State Planning Board, he was in charge of the People’s Plan Campaign. He is the author of numerous books in Malayalam and English.
Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali (born 21 October 1943) is an English-Pakistani writer, journalist, and filmmaker. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, Counter Punch, and the London Review of Books. He is the author of several books, including Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power (1970), Can Pakistan Survive? The Death of a State (1991), Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002), Bush in Babylon (2003), Conversations with Edward Said (2005), Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope (2006), A Banker for All Seasons (2007), The Duel (2008) and The Obama Syndrome (2010).
Teesta Setalvad
Teesta Setalvad is a human rights activist and journalist. She is secretary of Citizens for Justice and Peace, an organization that has fought to get justice for the victims of the anti-Muslim pogrom in Gujarat in 2002. Along with fellow journalist and husband Javed Anand, she is co-founder and co-editor of Communalism Combat and the website Sabrang. LeftWord published her memoirs Footsoldier of the Constitution, in 2017.
Urmila Bhirdikar
Urmila Bhirdikar teaches sociology in Shiv Nadar University. She translates between Marathi, Hindi and English. They include the translation of the play Mahapoor by Satish Alekar (The Deluge, in Collected Plays of Satish Alekar, OUP, 2009) and with Amlan Dasgupta, translation and critical introduction to My Life by Sangit Samrat Khansahab Alladiya Khan (Thema, 2001).
Utsa Patnaik
UTSA PATNAIK retired as Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has written extensively on political economy, capitalism and the agrarian question. She is the author of The Long Transition: Essays on Political Economy (1999), and The Republic of Hunger and Other Essays (2007), and has edited two volumes of The Agrarian Question in Marx and his Successors for LeftWord Books.
V.M. Mohanraj
V.M. MOHANRAJ (born 1928) is one of the most respected librarians in India, having worked at Madras University, Law College (Chennai), and The Lawrence School (Lovedale). He has six books and many articles to his credit and has contributed articles to the first ten-volume encyclopedia in Malayalam. He is a recipient of H.H. The Maharaja of Travancore Gold Medal for proficiency in Malayalam.
Victor Figueroa Clark
Dr Victor Figueroa Clark is scholar of Latin American history and politics specialising in Chile. He has written widely on Latin American events, is a former lecturer at the LSE, and a contributing editor at Alborada.net, a British media site covering Latin America.
Victor Gordon Kiernan
Victor Gordon Kiernan (1913–2009) was a British Marxist historian. He was part of the famous Communist Party Historians’ Group of the 1940s that included E.P. Thompson, Christopher Hill, Rodney Hilton and others. He was described by Hill as ‘one of the most versatile of British historians’.
VIDYUN SABHANEY
Vidyun Sabhaney is a writer and illustrator of graphic narratives and comics. Her work has been published by a number of publishers and magazines. She is the co-editor of First Hand, and the editor of First Hand 2, both non-fiction and research-based comics anthologies. She is a co-editor of Drawing Resistance, a bilingual publication with two issues. She also started Captain Bijli Comics, an independent comics publishing platform which created Mice Will Be Mice, DOGS! An Anthology, and the First Hand books (in collaboration with Yoda Press & People Tree). Her latest independent work is a comic on the women of the farmer’s movement titled Haq.
Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad is director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, editor at LeftWord Books, and chief correspondent for Globetrotter. 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.
Wandana Sonalkar
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 Movement by Urimila Pawar & Meenakshi Moon, and of Memoirs of a Dalit Communist: The Many Worlds of R. B. More She writes regularly on gender and caste.
Wang Chaohua
Wang Chaohua is a researcher who has a doctorate in modern Chinese literature and culture from the University of California, Los Angeles. She writes regularly on Chinese politics and has edited a collection of essays, One China, Many Paths (Verso, 2003). She lives in Los Angeles.
Wildan Sena Utama
Wildan Sena Utama is a Lecturer at the Department of History, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A Vision for the Future: An Intellectual History of the 1955 Bandung Conference, was originally published as Konferensi Asia-Afrika 1955: Asal Usul Intelektual dan Warisannya Bagi Gerakan Global Antiimperialisme, Jakarta: Marjin Kiri, 2017.
अनूप मणि त्रिपाठी
अनूप मणि त्रिपाठी का जन्म उत्तर प्रदेश के महाराजगंज ज़िले के धानी नामक गांव में हुआ। अब तक दो व्यंग्य संग्रह शोरूम में जननायक और अस मानुष की जात प्रकाशित। तहलका पत्रिका में ‘तहलका फुल्का’ नामक व्यंग्य स्तंभ बेहद चर्चित रहा। उन्हें अंजमुन नवलेखन पुरस्कार, प्रथम के पी सक्सेना युवा सम्मान, हरिशंकर परसाई स्मृति इप्टा व्यंग्य सम्मान और सफ़दर हाश्मी शब्द शिल्पी सम्मान प्राप्त हुए हैं। कुछ व्यंग्य रचनाओं पर नुक्कड़ नाटक खेले गये। एक कहानी पर टेली फिल्म का निर्माण। मासिक पत्रिका जनचुनौती में ‘दरबार’ नाम से व्यंग्य स्तंभ जारी। फिलहाल स्वतंत्र लेखन।
कृष्ण प्रताप सिंह
कृष्ण प्रताप सिंह पत्रकार और कवि हैं। उनका जन्म उत्तर प्रदेश के तत्कालीन फ़ैज़ाबाद (अब आम्बेडकर नगर) ज़िले की अकबरपुर तहसील के पतौना नामक गांव में एक बेहद सामान्य किसान परिवार में हुआ। अवध के इतिहास पर अवधनामा नामक स्तंभ बेहद चर्चित। एक कविता संग्रह डरते हुए और कुछ पुस्तिकाएं प्रकाशित। दैनिक जनमोर्चा से सेवानिवृत्ति के बाद अब स्वतंत्र लेखन।
प्रेमचंद
प्रेमचंद (31 जुलाई 1880–8 अक्टूबर 1936) हिंदी-उर्दू के सर्वाधिक लोकप्रिय कहानीकार, उपन्यासकार और विचारक थे। उन्होंने सेवासदन, प्रेमाश्रम, रंगभूमि, निर्मला, ग़बन, कर्मभूमि, गोदान आदि लगभग डेढ़ दर्जन उपन्यास तथा पूस की रात, कफ़न, ठाकुर का कुआँ, पंच परमेश्वर और बड़े घर की बेटी जैसी क़रीब तीन सौ कहानियाँ लिखीं। उनके तीन नाटक हैं – कर्बला, संग्राम और प्रेम की वेदी। उन्होंने अपने समय की प्रमुख पत्रिकाओं में सामाजिक-राजनीतिक और आर्थिक विषयों पर अनेक लेख लिखे और हिंदी समाचार पत्र जागरण तथा साहित्यिक पत्रिका हंस का संपादन-प्रकाशन किया।
विष्णु नागर
विष्णु नागर जाने-माने कवि, कथाकार और व्यंग्यकार हैं। मैं फिर कहता हूँ चिड़िया, तालाब में डूबी छह लड़कियाँ और संसार बदल जाएगा इनके प्रमुख कविता संग्रह हैं जबकि ईश्वर की कहानियाँ, आख्यान, रात-दिन, बच्चा और गेंद इनके प्रमुख कहानी संग्रह। व्यंग्य के कई संग्रह हैं जिनमें प्रमुख हैं: जीव-जंतु पुराण, घोड़ा और घास, राष्ट्रीय नाक, छोटा सा ब्रेक तथा सदी का सबसे बड़ा ड्रामेबाज। नवभारत टाइम्स, हिंदुस्तान, कादंबिनी, नई दुनिया में लंबे समय तक प्रमुख पदों पर कार्य करने के बाद फिलहाल स्वतंत्र लेखन।