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Gaiutra Bahadur is the author of Coolie Woman, a personal history of indenture shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She was a fellow at Harvard University in 2007-2008, at the Nieman Foundation, and in 2016-2017, at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute.
Neel Mukherjee is part of a new generation of Indian writers dissecting postcolonialism’s failed promise of a classless society.
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