AMIYA KUMAR BAGCHI a leading economist was until recently the Director of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.
SABYASACHI BHATTACHARYA formerly Vice Chancellor of the Viswabharati University, teaches history at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and is one of the country's foremost writers on labour and social history.
RUKMINI BHAYA NAIR teaches English at the Indian Instsitute of Technology, Delhi. Her book of poems The Hyoid Bone was published a few years ago.
JOYA CHATTERJI was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and is currently working on a Cambridge University research project on South Asian history. She is the author of Bengal Divided: Hindu Commnnalism and Partition, 1932-1947.
HEPHZIBAH ISRAEL teaches English in Delhi University.
JOHN LALL former civil servant has recently written a book on Begum Samru.
VED MARWAH a retired police officer is currently with the Centre for Policy Research.
PANKAJ MISHRA author of Butter Chicken in Ludhiana is a freelance writer and editor.
SUJIT MUKHERJEE worked for several years in publishing and has recently written The Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer.
MRIDULA NATH CHAKRABORTY teaches English at the Janaki Devi Mahavidyalaya, New Delhi.
ARINDAM SEN longtime grassroots activist is currently the Director of the Indian Institute of Marxist Studies, Calcutta.
DILIP SIMEON is a historian specializing in labour studies,
E. SRIDHARAN is with the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India and the Centre for Policy Research.
RAJESWARI SUNDER RAJAN is a senior research fellow with the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.
TARUN TEJPAL is the literary editor with Outlook.
PARSA VENKATESWAR RAO JR. works with the Indian Express.
ANDREW WHITEHEAD until recently the BBC correspondent in Delhi, is currently working on a series on the Partition for BBC radio.