Alberto Acosta

Alberto Acosta

Vivan Sundaram
Vivan Sundaram was born in Shimla in 1943. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University of Baroda, Vadodara, and the Slade School of Fine Art, London, in the 1960s. He returned to India in

David Ellerman
David Ellerman is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Riverside.
Malini Bhattacharya
Malini Bhattacharya was Professor of English and Director of the School of Women's Studies at Jadavpur University till her retirement in 2003. She was a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, from 1989 t

Gautam Bhatia
A Delhi-based practising architect, Gautam Bhatia graduated in fine arts and did his post-graduation in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the recipient of several national and inte
Madhusree Dutta
Madhusree Dutta, the curator of Project Cinema City, is a filmmaker and executive director of Majlis. She curated the cultural component at World Social Forum, 2004 and 2007, and has conceived and

Himani Bannerji
Himani Bannerji is Associate Professor of Sociology at York University, Toronto, Canada, and has an active research and teaching connection with India, especially West Bengal, through the School of Wo
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. He is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has written

Rohini Hensman
Rohini Hensman is a writer and independent scholar based in Bombay. She has published extensively on issues of worker's rights, women's rights and the rights of minorities, and is the co-author of

G.P. Deshpande
G.P. Deshpande taught Chinese Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, for thirty-five years. Apart from academic writings on China and international politics, he ran a regular colum

Jayati Ghosh
Jayati Ghosh is Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Timur Kuran
Timur Kuran is currently Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. He has been Professor of Economics and Law, and King Faisal

Maya Gupta
Maya Gupta is the author of Lord William Bentinck in Madras and the Vellore Mutiny 1803–07 (1987), and has contributed numerous essays to journals and collection of articles.

Ruth Rosengarten
Ruth Rosengarten is an artist and writer. She lives and works in England. She received her PhD in art history at the Courtauld Institute in London, and has lectured in South Africa, Portugal and Engl
Amit Kumar Gupta
Amit Kumar Gupta has been researching and writing on issues of modern Indian history for several years now. His publications include North-West Frontier Province Legislature and the Freedom Struggl

Utsa Patnaik
Utsa Patnaik is Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where she taught economics from 1973 until retiring in 2010. She has published extensively on problems of peasant trans

Ari Sitas
Ari Sitas, a South African writer and a sociologist, works at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He has been a leading scholar among the development alternative sociological voices in Southern
Wiebke Keim
Wiebke Keim is a German sociologist at CRNS in Strasbourg, France, and coordinates, through the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany, a major research programme on circulating knowledge betw
Rustom Bharucha
Rustom Bharucha is an independent writer, director and dramaturge based in Calcutta. He was Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies in the School of Arts and Aesthetics at the Jawaharlal Nehru

Suvira Jaiswal
Suvira Jaiswal is former Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She did her MA in History from Allahabad University and PhD from Patna University under the supervision of

C.P. Chandrasekhar
C.P. Chandrasekhar taught economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His areas of interest include the role of finance and industry in devel

Paritosh Sen
Born in Dhaka (now in Bangladesh) in 1918, Paritosh Sen studied art at the Government College of Arts and Crafts in Madras, and at Andre Lhote's School, Academy Grand Chamier, Ecole de Beaux Arts a

Sudhir Chandra
Sudhir Chandra is the author of Enslaved Daughters: Colonialism, Law and Women's Rights (1997), The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Consciousness in Colonial India (1992) and Dependence a

Vikas Rawal
Vikas Rawal is Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Megha Kumar
Megha Kumar is Deputy Director of Analysis at Oxford Analytica, the global analysis and advisory firm, where she has also been Senior Analyst for South and Southeast Asia. She holds a DPhil in Moder
Uma Chakravarti
Uma Chakravarti taught history at Miranda House, University of Delhi. Her publications include Delhi Riots: Three Days in the Life of a Nation (joint editor, 1987), The Social Dimensions of Early B

Prabhat Patnaik
Prabhat Patnaik is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Accumulation and Stability under Capitalism (1997), The Retreat to Unfreedom (2