Pratap Bhanu Mehta is an Indian academic. He has been the president of the Centre for Policy Research and has taught at NYU, Harvard and JNU. Since July 2017, he is the vice-chancellor of Ashoka University. His areas of research include political theory, constitutional law, society and politics in India, governance and political economy and international affairs. Dr Mehta has served on many central government committees, including India's National Security Advisory Board, the Prime Minister of India's National Knowledge Commission and a Supreme Court-appointed committee on elections in Indian universities.He received the 2010 Malcom S. Adishehshiah Award and the 2011 Infosys Prize for Social Sciences.Books by Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Mulk Raj Anand (12 December 1905 – 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R. K. Narayan, Ahmad Ali and Raja Rao, was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an International readership. Anand is admired for his novels and short stories, which have acquired the status of classics of modern Indian English literature; they are noted for their perceptive insight into the lives of the oppressed and for their analysis of impoverishment, exploitation and misfortune.He became known for his protest novel “Untouchable” (1935), followed by other works on the Indian poor such as “Coolie” (1936) and “Two Leaves and a Bud” (1937). Books by Mulk Raj Anand The Singing Line Drawings By Hebbar The Indian Theatre Death of a Hero Reflections on a White Elephant Splendours of Kerala Lost Child and Other Stories Tri...
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