Siddhartha Guha Roy

Siddhartha Guha Ray teaches history in Vivekananda College, affiliated with the University of Calcutta. He is the Head of the Department as well as the Coordinator of its postgraduate section. Guha Ray specialises in human rights and labour history and completed his PhD from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. His thesis focused on the history of the working class in the Calcutta Tramway Company. His notable works include Calcutta Tramwaymen: A Study of Working Class History, Human Rights, Democratic Rights and Popular Protest (2001). Furthermore, he has contributed to several journals of repute such as Economic and Political Weekly, Social Scientist, Mainstream, and Frontier. He is a well-known Human Rights Activist.