Ananta Kumar GiriProfessor Ananta Kumar Giri is on the faculty of the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He has taught and done research in many universities in India and abroad, including Aalborg University (Denmark); Maison des sciences de l'hmme, Paris (France); the University of Kentucky (USA); University of Freiburg & Humboldt University (Germany); and Jagiellonian University (Poland). He has an abiding interest in social movements and cultural change, criticism, creativity and contemporary dialectics of transformation, theories of self, culture and society, and creative streams in education, philosophy and literature. Read More Read Less