S. Anand is the publisher of the imprint Navayana. As a journalist he has worked for The Hindu, Outlook and Tehelka.
Anthony Arnove is the author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal, published by Metropolitan Books and the American Empire Project. He is also the editor of the critically acclaimed Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War (South End Press), Terrorism and War, a collection of post–9/11 interviews with Howard Zinn published by Seven Stories Press and, with Howard Zinn, Voices of a People’s History of the United States (Seven Stories), a primary-source companion to Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. His latest book, forthcoming from Penguin India, is The Essential Chomsky. Arnove lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review and of Haymarket Books.
David Barsamian is the founder and director of Alternative Radio, www.alternativeradio.org, the independent weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. He is a radio producer, journalist, author and lecturer. He has been working in radio since 1978. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine.
His latest books are Targeting Iran and What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World with Noam Chomsky, Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali and Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics with Howard Zinn. His earlier books include The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile with Arundhati Roy, Imperial Ambitions with Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire and The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting.
Barsamian lectures on US foreign policy, corporate power, the media and propaganda all over the world. He was awarded the Media Education Award by Friends of Community Media for outstanding work as a progressive media voice. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its Top Ten Media Heroes. He is the winner of the ACLU’s Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Award and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. In December 2007 he delivered the prestigious Eqbal Ahmad lectures in Pakistan in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore.
Shoma Chaudhury is a founder-member and editor with Tehelka.
N. Ram is the editor-in-chief of The Hindu. He also heads the other publications of The Hindu Group such as Frontline, The Hindu Business Line and Sportstar. Ram has been awarded the Padma Bhushan.
P.G. Rasool writes, in Urdu, a weekly column on current affairs in Kashmir Uzma (Greater Kashmir), published from Srinagar. He has also written Kashmir 1947 (Urdu).
Amit Sengupta is the editor-in-charge of Hardnews. He was, earlier, editor, commentary and analysis, at Tehelka.