The Mind Creative
Contributors
Sukumar Nayar is originally from Kerala, India. He
is a retired professor of theatre having trained at
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and New York
University (NYU). He had been involved with theatre
for over seven decades in India, Uganda, England,
Papua New Guinea, the United States and Canada.
He has directed, produced or otherwise been involved
in over 100 stage productions. For his contribution to
theatre he was awarded the Millennium Theatre 100,
“awarded to 100 theatre practitioners in Alberta for outstanding
contribution to the development of theatre in the last 100 years.”
After taking early retirement, he joined the United Nations as a
consultant. He lives in Toronto with his wife who is also a retired
professor. Sukumar writes a weekly blog called SUBTEXT:
www.sukumarnayar.wordpress.com.
Razi Azmi is a former academic with a Ph.D. in
history and a passion for travelling. He has been a
regular columnist in the Daily Times (published from
Lahore)
and
has
his
own
BLOG
at
www.raziazmi.com where he publishes his
travelogues and articles about contemporary political
and social issues. He can be reached at
[email protected]
Luuc Kooijmans is a Dutch historian and author of
Death Defied: The Anatomy Lessons of Frederik
Ruysch (Brill, 2011). In 2004 he was awarded the
Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation Humanities Prize
for his oeuvre, and in 2008 he received the Great
History Prize for Dangerous Knowledge: Insight and
Fear in the Days of Jan Swammerdam (Bert Bakker,
2007).
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