Bala Ramulu Chinnala is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. He was an Emeritus Fellow of the University Grants Commission, New Delhi, and a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. Earlier, he was a faculty member of Public Administration at Kakatiya University, Telangana, India, for over three decades and served in various academic and administrative capacities. A recipient of several awards, he has also held several visiting fellowships. He has published seven books and 60 research papers in journals. His books include: ‘Marginalized Communities and Decentralized Institutions in India Exclusion and Inclusion Perspective’ (2021); ‘Governance of Food Security Policies in India’ (2016); ‘Technology and Rural Development’ (2000); ‘International Organizations and Rural Employment Programs in India: Emerging Trends’ (1999); ‘Development Strategies in India: Emerging Trends’ (coedited, 1993); ‘Public Policies: An Evaluation of Integrated Rural Development Programme’ (1991); and ‘Administration on Anti-Poverty Programme (A Study of SFDA)’(1984). His teaching and research interests are in the areas of development studies, decentralized governance, rural livelihood, and public policy analysis.
""Probing into the entrenched bond between love, sexuality, and violence and its function of state-building in twentieth century Latin America, this book is a fascinating re-interpretation of the literature within the context of the political and social tumults. Rethinking history in an age when authoritative history is mistrusted, its clarification on the “structure of feeling” of Latin American geo-cultural reality points to a cartographic imagination and re-enchantment of the complex reality. A must read for students of literature, sociology and cultural studies."" Xiaoping Wang, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Tongji University, China. ""In Labyrinths of Love, Alberto Castelli offers sensitive and perceptive new investigations of some of the major voices in Latin American literature. In so doing, he examines various conceptions of love and how they both intersect with and subvert larger sociopolitical concerns. Castelli's volume delivers a strong combination of theoretical understanding and close reading."" James M. Decker (Ph.D.), Co-Editor, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. ""Probing into the entrenched bond between love, sexuality, and violence and its function of state-building in twentieth century Latin America, this book is a fascinating re-interpretation of the literature within the context of the political and social tumults. Rethinking history in an age when authoritative history is mistrusted, its clarification on the “structure of feeling” of Latin American geo-cultural reality points to a cartographic imagination and re-enchantment of the complex reality. A must read for students of literature, sociology and cultural studies."" Xiaoping Wang, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Tongji University, China. ""In Labyrinths of Love, Alberto Castelli offers sensitive and perceptive new investigations of some of the major voices in Latin American literature. In so doing, he examines various conceptions of love and how they both intersect with and subvert larger sociopolitical concerns. Castelli's volume delivers a strong combination of theoretical understanding and close reading."" James M. Decker (Ph.D.), Co-Editor, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies.