AMAL ALLANA is a well-known director of plays and TV serials: Himmat Mai, Begum Barve, Raj se Swaraj and Mullah Nasruddin are some recent ones.
SHAHID AMIN is Professor of History at Delhi University and the author of Event, Metaphor, Memory, and other subaltern studies.
SUMANTA BANERJEE is a freelance journalist and author of The Parlour and the Streets: Elite and Parlour Culture in 19th Century Calcutta.
SABYASACHI BHATTACHARYA is Professor of History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been the
Vice-Chancellor of Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan and is one of the foremost writers on labour and social history.
MAYA CHADDA is Professor of Political Science at William Patterson College, State University of New Jersey, USA.
PARTHA CHATTERJEE is a film critic.
EUNICE DE SOUZA is a poet and heads the Department of English at St Xavier’s College, Mumbai.
KAI FRIESE is deputy editor of The India Magazine.
KATHERINE FRANK is currently working on a biography of Indira Gandhi.
SAGARIKA GHOSE is a special correspondent with Outlook.
PREM SHANKAR JHA is a columnist with The Hindu and Business Standard. He is the former editor of The Hindustan
Times.
INDIVAR KAMTEKAR teaches modern Indian history at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
RAJNI KOTHARI is one of India’s foremost political scientists, author of several books and of the idea of non-party political formations.
N. S. MADHAVAN is a well-known Malayalee writer and civil servant.
MANJULA PADMANABHAN is a cartoonist and author of Hot Death, Cold Soup, a collection of short stories. She recently won the Alexander Onassis Culture Award for Theatre for her play Harvest.
MADHAVAN K. PALAT is Professor of History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and is associated with the
Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi.
ALOK RAI teaches English at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
NAYANTARA SAHGAL, distinguished novelist, has recently been awarded an honorary degree by Leeds University, UK.
GILLIAN WRIGHT works for the BBC and has translated Raag Darbari and Aadha Gaon into English.