Prasanta Dhar is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto, Canada. His dissertation presents a methodological argument to global intellectual history. It argues that a globalized discourse cannot be dissociated from its circulatory infrastructure. To show how the material and the ideological content of the circulation of an idea begins, transforms, and perishes in tandem with the generation, reconfiguration and obsolescence of its infrastructure, his dissertation examines the global circulation of Marxism through one of its highly debated and intensely charged sites, Calcutta, India. It examines the 'associations' - the infrastructure of mediation - in the circulation of Marxism through Calcutta, to argue that the content of 'global' Marxism cannot be separated from the life cycles of these 'local' associations. Entering from that point, the dissertation engages with the larger questions of nationalism and internationalism, colonial and post-colonial imaginations of spaces and places like Calcutta, India, South Asia. At present, Prasanta is finalizing his dissertation for final submission. Prior to joining the PhD programme, he completed his B.A. from Calcutta University, following which he worked for the Government of India for more than a decade. He has been involved in the Group Theatre Movement of Calcutta for about two decades.

Pratishtha Singh is a Lecturer of Italian Language and Literature at the University of Delhi. She is an author, a poet and an opinion leader. She's in the process of finishing her doctoral thesis on the representation of Mussolini in Contemporary Italian literature. She has been a student and scholar of cinema in Italy and India which explains her being the jury of Asolo Art Film Festival in Italy since 2009 and Environmental Film Festival in Sao Paolo in Brazil since 2014. Last year, she was nominated the God Mother of the Asolo Art Film Festival. She has a keen interest in politics and has done an annual internship at the Indian Parliament, the Lok Sabha in 2010. She wrote and submitted a thesis at the Lok Sabha Secretariat on the Privileges of the Members of Parliament in India. She has worked extensively in Rajasthan and with women with the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. In 2014, she managed the media and the women campaign for Mohammad Azharuddin from Sawai Madhopur. In 2015, she travelled alone across Bihar during the assembly elections to talk to the women voters. Her travel experiences and conversations have recently been published in the form of a Hindi and Bhojpuri book by Vani Prakashan. She writes for many reputed newspapers and journals. She was recently invited by the Nobel Laureate Mo Yan to represent India in the BRICS Literature Forum at Beijing University.

Ramaa Vasudevan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Colorado State University. Her Ph.D. in Economics from New School University, New York, focused on the political economy of international trade and finance, while her M.Phil at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India was a study about the evolution of labor markets in colonial India. Her main research interests are in international financial systems, open economy macroeconomics and the political economy of money and finance. Her work has been published in Cambridge Journal of Economics, Economic and Political Weekly, Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, Metroeconomica, Monthly Review, Review of Keynesian Economics, Review of Political Economy, Review of Radical Political Economics, and Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. She is the author of Things fall apart: From the crash of 2008 to the Great Slump, a structural and historically grounded analysis of the recent crisis and its aftermath. She is an Associate Editor of Review of Political Economy and a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Radical Political Economics.

Riccardo Bellofiore is a Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He teaches advanced macroeconomics, history of economic thought, and monetary economics. His research interests include capitalist contemporary economy, endogenous monetary approaches, Marxian theory and the philosophy of economics. Among his recent publications are: ‘Crisis Theory and the Great Recession: A Personal Journey, from Marx to Minsky’ (Research in Political Economy, 2011); and with Francesco Garibaldo and Mariana Mortagua, ‘A Credit-Money and Structural Perspective on the European Crisis: Why Exiting the Euro is the Answer to the Wrong Question’ (Review of Keynesian Economics, 2015). He has also recently co-edited with Giovanna Vertova, The Great Recession and the Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014); with Scott Carter, Towards a New Understanding of Piero Sraffa. Insights from Archival Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); with Guido Starosta and Peter Thomas, In Marx’s Laboratory. Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse (Leiden, 2013); and with Ewa Karwowska and Jan Toporowski, two volumes in honour of Tadeusz Kowalik: The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, Oskar Lange and Michal Kalecki (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and Economic Crisis and Political Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). He has published/edited books on Marx, Luxemburg, Hans-Georg Backhaus, Alfred Schmidt, Hyman P. Minsky, Ludwig von Mises, Claudio Napoleoni, Federico Caffè, Globalisation and the conditions of labour, and the Tobin Tax.

Roberto Massari graduated at Rome University in Philosophy, at Trento University in Sociology, at the Ismeo of Rome (Institute for Oriental studies) on India’s culture and language, at the Conservatorium of Perugia in piano. He published his first sociological research in 1966. Since then he has written more than 30 books (including 3 novels and a collection of his own poems). In 1968 he lived six months in Cuba as a guest of the Cuban government and since then he is studying Che Guevara and the Cuban revolution. Since 1998 he is president of the International Che Guevara Foundation (www.fondazioneguevara.it).As an industrial sociologist he has worked with some of the most outstanding scholars in the field: Franco Ferrarotti, Alessandro Pizzorno, Alain Touraine, Serge Mallet, Claude Durand and others. He is a founding member (Paris 1972) of the Association of Fourier’s Friends (still active in Besançon, France). In 1998 he founded a second publishing house (now Massarieditore [www.massarieditore.it ]) and to this he dedicates his life. In 2018 he hopes to finish the two books that he considers the most important in his life: one on Lenin and one on Jesus.