A. G. Krishna Menon is an architect and urban planner and founding member of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage.
A. K. Shiva Kumar is a development economist who teaches economics and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and at Ashoka University, India.
A. K. Verma is former Chair, Christ Church College, Kanpur. Currently, he is Honourary Director of Centre for the Study of Society and Politics (CSSP), Kanpur, and Editor of Shodharthy, a social science journal in Hindi.
Aakar Patel is Managing Trustee of Amnesty International India and a syndicated columnist.
Abhay Kumar Dubey is Professor at the CSDS where he directs the Indian Languages Programme. He has recently published Hindi Mein Hum: Aadhunikta Ke Aine Mein Bhasha aur Vichar (2015).
Aditi Mukherjee is Visiting Faculty at Language Technologies Research Center (LTRC), IIIT Hyderabad. Her publications include Language Maintenance and Language Shift among Panjabis and Bengalis in Delhi (1996) and Literacy in India: The Present Context (2002).
Aditya Dasgupta is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Merced.
Ajoy Bose is a journalist and author. He was Executive Editor of The Pioneer and India correspondent of The Guardian, London. His books include For Reasons of State: Delhi under Emergency, Behenji: The Rise and Fall of Mayawati and Across the Universe: The Beatles in India.
Akshaya Mukul is an independent researcher and a journalist. He is the author of Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India. He is working on the first English biography of Hindi writer Sachchidanand Hiranand Vatsyayan Agyeya.
Alito Siqueira is former Associate Professor of Sociology at Goa University. His research interests include culture and development with a focus on pedagogy and questions of inclusion.
Amir Ali is with the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Previously, he taught at the Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi.
Annie Koshi received her doctoral degree from IIT Delhi and did her masters in educational management from Oxford Brookes (UK).
Antony Arul Valan is a graduate student with the Department of English at Ashoka University, India, and formerly senior editor at Orient BlackSwan, an academic publishing house.
Anushka Rajesh Patel is a PhD candidate in clinical psychology, focusing on trauma-related sequelae, at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Arjun Ghosh teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi. His latest book is an edited translation of Bijon Bhattacharya’s Nabanna.
Arun Kumar is Malcolm Adiseshiah Chair Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. He was formerly Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.
Arun M. Kumar is Chief Executive Officer at KPMG India and formerly Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Global Markets and Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service (USFCS) in the administration of US president Barack Obama.
Asawari Nayak is Executive Editor of Jaag Monthly, a Goan literary magazine in Konkani. Her research interests include gender studies, pedagogy, diaspora and policy studies.
Ashley Tellis is a teacher of English and gender studies, editor and journalist.
Ashok Thakur, currently an honourary professor at Panjab University, Chandigarh, belongs to the 1977 batch of the Indian Administrative Service. He retired as Education Secretary, Government of India.
Ashutosh Kumar is Professor, Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh. His edited collections include Globalisation and Politics of Identity in India (2008), Rethinking State Politics in India: Regions within Regions (2017) and How India Votes: A State-by-State Look (2019).
B. N. Goswamy is an art historian and professor emeritus of Art History at Panjab University, Chandigarh. Recipient of several honours, including the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan, his publications include Nainsukh of Guler (1997) and The Spirit of Indian Painting (2014).
B. N. Patnaik is former Professor of English and Linguistics at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. Previous publications include Retelling as Interpretation: An Essay on Sarala Mahabharata (2013) and Language Matters (2018).
Bela Bhatia is an independent researcher based in Bastar, Chhattisgarh. Questions related to truth, justice, human rights and democracy have informed her work over the last three decades.
Bhalchandra Nemade is a Marathi writer, poet, critic and linguistic scholar from Maharashtra, India. His debut novel was Kosala (1963), and he is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi and Jnanapith awards.
Bibek Debroy is an economist and Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister. His recent publications include a ten-volume unabridged English translation of the Mahabharata (2014). He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2015.
Bijoy Boruah is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar. He has earlier taught at IIT Kanpur, and IIT Delhi. His area of research interest is in the metaphysics of the self.
Bina Agarwal is Professor of Development Economics and Environment at The University of Manchester, and former Director of the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Her recent books are Gender and Green Governance (2010) and a compendium of her selected papers, Gender Challenges (2016). Her honours include a Padma Shri in 2008, and the International Balzan Prize 2017.
Boria Majumdar, senior research fellow in the School of Sport and Wellbeing at the University of Central Lancashire and visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago, is a sports journalist, academician and author. His latest book is Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians: The On and Off the Field Story of Cricket in India and Beyond (2018).
Brahma Prakash is assistant professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the ‘Folk Performance’ in India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019).
C. Ramachandraiah is Professor of Geography at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad. Recent publications include articles in the Economic and Political Weekly (2016) and IASSI Quarterly (2016).
C. Rammanohar Reddy is Editor of The India Forum. He was earlier editor of the Economic and Political Weekly. Previous publications include Demonetisation and Black Money (2016).
Chandan Gowda teaches at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. He has translated U. R. Ananthamurthy’s story, Bara (2016) in English, and edited The Way I See It: A Gauri Lankesh Reader (2017) and Theatres of Democracy: Selected Essays of Shiv Visvanathan (2016).
Chandan Sinha is an IAS officer of the 1989 batch and a writer. His publications include Public Sector Reforms in India: New Role of the District Officer (2007) and Kindling of an Insurrection: Notes from Junglemahals (2013); Kabir - Selected Sakhis: The Vision of Wisdom, his forthcoming work, is due for publication in 2020.
Chandraiah Gopani is an Assistant Professor at the G. B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad. He does extensive fieldwork in South India and writes for magazines and journals in English and Telugu.
Darryl D’Monte served as Resident Editor at The Indian Express and The Times of India in Mumbai. Chairperson of the Forum of Environmental Journalists of India, his publications include Temples or Tombs: Industry versus Environment (1985) and Ripping the Fabric (2002).
Debraj Ray is Julius Silver Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and Professor of Economics at New York University. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is co-editor of the American Economic Review and author of Development Economics (1998).
Dipak Dasgupta is Distinguished Fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi. He was earlier principal economic adviser to the Ministry of Finance, India, and board member at the international Green Climate Fund. His recent publications include the (co-authored) book Moving the Trillions (2015).
Dipti Kulkarni is Assistant Professor of English at NMIMS University, Mumbai. Her recent publications include No Social Change Sans Dialogue: Case of Shani Shingnapur (2016) and Self-Repair in Instant Messaging Interactions (2016).
Dunu Roy is a chemical engineer by training, social scientist by compulsion and political ecologist by choice. He is currently with the Hazards Centre, New Delhi, and is a contributor to the edited volume Alternative Futures: India Unshackled (2017).
E. Sridharan is the Academic Director and Chief Executive of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI) in New Delhi. He has recently published Coalition Politics and Democratic Consolidation in Asia (2012) and Coalition Politics in India: Selected Issues at the Centre and the States (2014).
Fahima Ayub Khan is a postgraduate student of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include child multilingualism and the interface between developmental disorders and language acquisition.
G. J. V. Prasad is Professor of English at JNU. His recent publications include three edited volumes – Violets in a Crucible: Translating the Orient (co-edited with Madhu Benoit and Susan Blattes); India in Translation, Translation in India; and Disability in Translation: The Indian Experience.
Gangeya Mukherji teaches English at Mahamati Prannath Mahavidyalaya, Mau-Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh. Recent publications include Gandhi and Tagore: Politics, Truth and Conscience (2016) and (co-edited) Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma (2018).
Geetanjali Shree is a fiction writer in Hindi. Her works have been translated into various Indian and European languages. Her latest novel is Ret-Samadhi (2019).
George Mathew is Chairman, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. His publications include Panchayati Raj: From Legislation to Movement (1994) and Status of Panchayats in the States and Union Territories of India (2013).
Ghanshyam Shah is a former professor at JNU. Recent publications include Democracy, Civil Society and Governance (2019) and ‘Education and Process of Inclusion under Neo-Liberal Political Economy’ (2018), a contribution to the edited volume The Legacy of Nehru (2018).
Gillian Wright is a writer and translator based in New Delhi. She has translated Raag Darbari (2012) by Shrilal Shukla and A Village Divided (2003) by Rahi Masoom Reza. Other publications include The Presidential Retreats of India (2015) and Mishti, The Mirzapuri Labrador (2017) for young readers.
Gopal Guru is Editor of Economic and Political Weekly and former Professor at the Centre for Political Studies, JNU. Recent publications include Atrophy of Dalit Politics (2005) and The Cracked Mirror (co-authored with Sundar Sarukkai) (2012).
Gopal N. Raj is a senior science journalist who has written extensively about India’s space programme. His publications include the book Reach for the Stars: The Evolution of India’s Rocket Programme (2000).
Gopika Nath is a textile artist and writer. A Fulbright scholar, her stitch journal, www.gopikanathstitch-journal.blogspot.com, adds contemporary philosophy to an ancient craft.
Gurcharan Das is the author of a trilogy on life’s goals: India Unbound (2000), The Difficulty of Being Good (2009) and Kama, the Riddle of Desire (2018). He studied philosophy at Harvard and was CEO of Proctor & Gamble, India, before he became a full-time writer. He is General Editor for Penguin’s fourteen-volume ‘Story of Indian Business’.
H. S. Shylendra is with the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA). He is engaged in teaching, training and research in areas like rural livelihood and development, rural banking, microfinance and local governance.
Harish Trivedi is former Professor in the Department of English, Delhi University. He has authored Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India (1993) and has co-edited The Nation across the World: Postcolonial Literary Representations (2007) and Literature and Nation: Britain and India 1800–1990 (2000), among other books.
Harsh Mander is Director of the Centre for Equity Studies. A former officer in the Indian Administrative Service, he is an activist who works with survivors of mass violence and hunger as well as homeless persons and street children.
Harsha V. Dehejia is a physician and professor of Indian Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa. His main area of interest is in aesthetics, especially Krishna shringara, and he has published over twenty-five books on this subject.
Hemachandran Karah teaches English literature at the Humanities and Social sciences faculty at IIT Madras. His research is on issues of disability, health, the language question, literary criticism and musicology.
Hilal Ahmed is Associate Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi. His book Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India: Monuments, Memory, Contestation (2014) attempts to make sense of the nature of contemporary Muslim political discourse.
Hoshang Netarwala is a retired chartered accountant who has worked across various industries, such as shipping, logistics, garments, market research, pharmaceuticals and sugar.
Ipshita Chanda teaches at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Her books include Packaging Freedom: Feminism and Popular Culture (2003) and Tracing the Charit as a Genre (2003). She translates between Hindi, Bangla, Urdu and English.
Ira Pande is a former university lecturer who was earlier chief editor of the Publications Department at the India International Centre. Her recent publications include translations of Apradhini: Women without Men (2010) and the Hindi novella, T’ta Professor (2006).
Irfanullah Farooqi teaches sociology at South Asian University. His areas of interest include Islam and Muslims in South Asia, the sociology of knowledge and literature and modern Indian social thought.
Irwin Allan Sealy is a writer. His publications include the verse novel Zelaldinus (2017), the novels Trotter-nama (1988) and The Small Wild Goose Pagoda (2014), the memoir Red: An Alphabet (2006) and the travelogue From Yukon to Yucatan (1994).
Iwan Pranoto teaches Mathematics at Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia. He has been Cultural Attache at the Embassy of Indonesia, Delhi. His areas of interest include mathematics, education and culture.
Jaskiran K. Mathur teaches sociology at St Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, New York. Her research interests are in gender issues, rehabilitation, development and voluntary work.
Jasmine Anand teaches at the Postgraduate Department of English, Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women, Chandigarh. Her areas of research interest are postcolonial literatures, Indian writings in English, cinema and cultural studies. Her most recent publications are research papers in a book by Springer (2018) and the Caesura Journal (2019), Romania.
Jatindra Kumar Nayak is former Professor of English from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. His English translation of the classic Odia novel Yantrarudha was published in 2003.
Jean Drèze is Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics, Ranchi University. His recent books include An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (co-authored with Amartya Sen) (2013) and Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone (2017).
Jeemol Unni is Professor of Economics at Ahmedabad University. Her areas of research interest are labour markets, the informalization of labour and the gender implications of this process. Her most recent publication is an article for Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research (2016).
Jitender Parsad is former Professor of Sociology, M.D. University, Rohtak, Haryana. His books include Tribal Movements in India (2009), Gandhi, Ambedkar and Dalit’s Emancipation (co-authored with Sangita Parsad) ( 2015).
K. Narayana Chandran is Professor of English in the School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad. A translator and writer in Malayalam, his recent publications include Why Stories? (2014).
Kaisser Rana is a teacher at the Shining Star School, Ramnagar, Uttarakhand. He is also a translator and social activist, who has translated the renowned investigative journalist, Rana Ayub’s ‘Gujarat Files’.
Karthika Sathyanathan has an MA in English studies from IIT Madras. She is working on the use of language in school education as a fellow at the Ministry of Human Resource Development in New Delhi.
Katyayani Dalmia is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK), University of Zurich. Her research investigates how people link bodily traits with caste, class, religion and gender in everyday life.
Kavery Nambisan is a novelist and surgeon, who has served as a member of the governing council of the Association of Rural Surgeons of India. Her recent novels include The Story That Must Not Be Told (2010) and A Town Like Ours (2014).
Kavita Panjabi is Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She has recently published Unclaimed Harvest: An Oral History of the Tebhaga Women’s Movement (2016).
Keki N. Daruwalla is a poet and novelist and former IPS officer. He was member in the National Commission for Minorities between 2011 and 2014 and his latest novel is Swerving to Solitude (2018).
Lakshmi Subramanian is Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS, Pilani (Goa campus). She is currently Associate Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Nantes, and scholar-in-residence, Godrej Archives, Mumbai. Recent publications include The Sovereign and the Pirate: Ordering Maritime Subjects in India’s Western Littoral (2017).
Lallan S. Baghel teaches at the Department of Philosophy, Panjab University, Chandigarh. He has recently co-edited Modernity and Changing Social Fabric of Punjab and Haryana (2018).
Leela Samson is a dancer and choreographer. She headed Kalakshetra for seven years and was chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification and Sangeet Natak Akademi, Delhi. Recent publications include Rhythm in Joy (1987) and Rukmini Devi: A Life (2010).
Madhavan K. Palat has been the editor of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, published by the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust, New Delhi, since 2011. His most recent publication is the Russian Revolution Centenary Lecture, titled ‘Utopia and Dystopia in Revolutionary Russia’ (2017).
Madhulika Banerjee teaches political science at the University of Delhi and has researched knowledge systems for development on margins, focussing on medical knowledge in particular.
Mahmood Farooqui, a writer, is best known for reviving Dastangoi, the lost art of Urdu storytelling.
Maidul Islam is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta. Recent publications include Limits of Islamism (2015) and Indian Muslim(s) after Liberalization (2019).
Malashri Lal is former Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi, and member, English Advisory Board of the Sahitya Akademi. She has written over fifteen books in the area of literature and gender studies.
Manas Ray is a retired professor of cultural studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC). He is currently editing a two-volume collection of essays on the state of Indian democracy.
Manindra Thakur teaches at the Centre for Political Studies, JNU. His areas of interest include Indian intellectual traditions, Marxism, the philosophy of science, social science research methods, literature and politics.
Manish Thakur teaches sociology at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He is the co-editor of Doing Theory: Locations, Hierarchies and Disjunctions (2018).
Manisha Madhava is an Associate Professor at SNDT Women’s University. Her recent publications include a contribution to the edited volume The Indian Parliament and Democratic Transformation (2018).
Maruthi P. Tangirala is a civil servant who has twice served in the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). His recent book is titled Telecom Sector Regulation in India: An Institutional Perspective (2019).
Mary E. John is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi. Recent publications include Women’s Studies in India: A Reader (2008) and The Political and Social Economy of Sex Selection: Exploring Family Development Linkages (2018).
Masood Ali Beg is Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University. His research interests include socio-historical linguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis.
Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (Association for the Empowerment of Labourers and Farmers), MKSS, collective is an Indian social movement and grass-roots organization best known for its successful struggle and demand for the Right to Information Act (RTI).
Melvil Pereira has been the director of North-Eastern Social Research Centre since 2012. His specialization is Customary Laws of the Tribal Peoples of North East India.
Merdijana Kovacevic is a PhD candidate in clinical psychology, focusing on trauma-related assessment and treatment, at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Mohd. Sanjeer Alam is an Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi. Recent publications include Religion, Community, and Education: The Case of Rural Bihar (2012) and Fixing Electoral Boundaries in India: Processes, Outcomes and Implications for Political Representation (co-edited with K. C. Sivaramakrishnan) (2015).
Mohini Mullick is former Professor of Philosophy at IIT Kanpur. Recent publications include Classical Indian Thought and the English Language (co-edited with Madhuri S. Sondhi) (2015).
Mona G. Mehta is Assistant Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar. Her research interests include democracy, urban transformations, remaking of city spaces and middle class politics and youth aspirations and skill development programs in urban and rural India. She has co-edited, Gujarat Beyond Gandhi: Identity, Conflict and Society (Routledge 2010) and authored several scholarly and research articles.
Montek Singh Ahluwalia is an economist and civil servant who was the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission of India and previously the first director of the Independent Evaluation Office at the International Monetary Fund.
Muzaffar Assadi is Special Officer, Raichur University, Karnataka. Recent publications include Identity Politics and Fundamentalism: Some Thoughts (2014).
N. Jayaram is Visiting Professor at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. Recent publications include three edited volumes: Knowing the Social World (2017), Social Dynamics of the Urban (2017) and Democratisation in the Himalayas (co-edited with Vibha Arora) (2017).
N. Manu Chakravarthy teaches critical theory, postcolonialism and film theory at the National College Basavanagudi, Bengaluru. His publications include Culture and Creativity (2019), Moving Images Multiple Realities (2015) and Conversations and Cultural Reflections (1999).
Nalini Nayak taught economics at Miranda House and at PGDAV College, University of Delhi, from where she retired as reader in economics. She has co-authored Microeconomic Theory (2002).
Navprit Kaur is ICSSR Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Her areas of research include the politics of caste, childhood studies and urban studies.
Navroz K. Dubash is a professor at the Centre for Policy Research. His primary area of research is the politics of climate change, energy, water and regulation. Recent edited collections include India in a Warming World: Integrating Climate Change and Development and Mapping Power: The Political Economy of Electricity in India’s States.
Nazima Parveen is ICSSR Postdoctoral Fellow at CSDS. She writes for Seminar, Economic and Political Weekly and The Quint on the rights of ethnic and religious minorities with special reference to urban transformation in postcolonial India.
Neera Chandhoke is former Professor of Political Science, Delhi University. Recent publications include Democracy and Revolutionary Politics (2015) and Contested Secessions: Democracy, Rights, Self-Determination and Kashmir (2012).
Neilabh Sinha a PhD candidate at the Institute of History, Leiden University. His project, ‘Renaissance Kings between the Natural and the Supernatural: A Comparative Study of Nature and Kingship in Eurasian Visual Culture’ studies ideas about Nature and kingship as they appear in the visual culture of the Mughal and Habsburg courts.
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay is a journalist and host of the TV political talk show ‘Present, Past and the Future’. His publications include Narendra Modi: The Man, The Times (2013) and Sikhs: Untold Agony of 1984 (2015).
Om Prakash teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Gautam Buddha University. Recent publications include the edited volume Linguistic Ecology of Mizoram (2017) and Linguistic Foundation of Identity (co-edited with Rajesh Kumar) (2018).
P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan is a Professor at the Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi. He researches the production and consumption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) with a special focus on development and India.
Pallavi Pant is a postdoctoral research associate with the Department of Environmental Health at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is interested in public engagement on air quality and health and in increasing the participation of women in science.
Pamela Philipose, presently ombudsperson, The Wire, began with The Times of India. She has worked as an editor for several publications, including The Indian Express. A fellowship with the Indian Council of Social Science Research in 2014 saw her shift focus to media studies.
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta is an investigative journalist and former editor of the Economic and Political Weekly. He is also an author, publisher, documentary film-maker and teacher.
Parikshit Ghosh is an Associate Professor at the Delhi School of Economics. His publications include Character Endorsements and Electoral Competition (2016) and Electoral Competition, Moderating Institutions and Political Extremism (2002).
Partha Ghose is former Professor, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, and honourary scientist, Indian National Academy of Sciences. Recent publications include the edited volume Einstein, Tagore and the Nature of Reality (2017).
Paula Banerjee is the Vice Chancellor of The Sanskrit College and University, Kolkata, and editor of Refugee Watch. Her recent publications include Statelessness in South Asia (2016) and Unstable Populations, Anxious States (2013).
Paula Richman is Professor in the Humanities, Department of Religion, at Oberlin College, Ohio, United States. She has edited Extraordinary Child: Poems from a South Indian Devotional Genre (1997) and Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia (1991).
Pavan K. Varma is a former diplomat and currently national general secretary and national spokesman of the Janata Dal (United). Recent publications include Chanakya’s New Manifesto (2013) and Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism’s Greatest Thinker (2018).
Peter Ronald deSouza is a Professor at CSDS and former Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. Recent publications include In the Hall of Mirrors: Reflections on Indian Democracy (2018) and the edited volume At Home with Democracy: A Theory of Indian Politics, the essays of D. L. Sheth (2017).
Poonam Muttreja is the Executive Director of Population Foundation of India. Her recent publications include a chapter in the edited volume Seven Decades of Independent India: Ideas and Reflections (2018) and in A Roadmap to India’s Health (2018).
Pradip Phanjoubam is a senior journalist. He was a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, during 2012–14, and is currently a fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi,. Recent publications include The Northeast Question: Conflicts and Frontiers (2016) and Shadow and Light: A Kaleidoscope of Manipur (2016).
Prakash Singh was former Police Chief of Uttar Pradesh and Assam and former director general of Border Security Force. Recent publications include The Naxalite Movement in India (2006).
Pralay Kanungo is currently DAAD Guest Professor at South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg. Recent publications include RSS’s Tryst with Politics (2002) and the edited volume The Algebra of Warfare-Welfare: A Long View of India’s 2014 Elections (2019).
Praveen Singh is doing a PhD in Linguistics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is interested in theoretical linguistics, the Western and Indian grammatical traditions and the philosophy of language.
Pulapre Balakrishnan teaches at Ashoka University, Sonipat. His most recent publication, co-authored with Ashima Goyal, is a chapter in the edited volume Handbook of the Indian Economy in the 21st Century (2018).
Pulin B. Nayak is former Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics. He was Director, Delhi School of Economics, during 2005–8. His recent publications include the edited volume Economic Development of India (2015).
Punam Tripathi is an independent researcher in the area disaster studies and vulnerability. Her latest publication is Vulnerable Andaman and Nicobar Islands: A Study of Disasters and Response (2018).
Raghavendra Lal Das has worked at the Reserve Bank of India for thirty two years and has taught at Patna University.
Rahul Tripathi is Professor and Head, Department of Political Science, Goa University.
Rajat Subhra Banerjee is an architect and author in Bengali, who writes nonsense poetry and prose.
Rajeev Bhargava is a professor at CSDS and was the Director from 2007 to 2014. His recent publications include What Is Political Theory and Why Do We Need It? (2012) and The Promise of India’s Secular Democracy (2010).
Rajesh Kumar is Professor of Linguistics at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. His research interests include the study of the structure of Indian languages and multilingualism in education, human cognition and politics.
Rajni Palriwala is Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi. Her recent publications include Marrying in South Asia: Shifting Concepts, Changing Practices in a Globalised World (co-edited by Ravinder Kaur) (2013).
Rama Kant Agnihotri is former Professor and Head, Department of Linguistics, Delhi University. His recent books include Indian English: Towards a New Paradigm (co-edited with Rajendra Singh) (2012) and ‘Impure Languages’: Linguistic and Literary Hybridity in Contemporary Cultures (with C. Benthien and T. Oransakia) (2015).
Ramana Murthy V. Rupakula teaches at the School of Economics, University of Hyderabad. Recent publications include the edited volume Agrarian Relations: The Long Debate (2018)
Ramanjit Kaur Johal is a Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy at Panjab University, Chandigarh, and a Fulbright and Shastri scholar. Her recent publications include co-authored chapters in Sustainable Waste Management: Policies & Case Studies (2019) and the Vision 2030 Document of the Government of Punjab (2016–17).
Ranjeeta Dutta teaches at the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU. Her publications include From Hagiographies to Biographies: Ramanuja in Tradition and History (2014) and Negotiating Religion: Perspectives from Indian History (co-edited with Rameshwar Prasad Bahuguna and Farhat Nasreen) (2012). Ranjeeta is also the editor of The Medieval History Journal.
Ranjit Nair is the founding director of the Centre for Philosophy and Foundations of Science and president of the World Institute for Advanced Study under the aegis of CPFS, New Delhi. He is chief editor of a twelve-volume series entitled ‘The Foundations of Philosophy in India’.
Ravi Vasudevan is at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and co-founder of CSDS’s media research programme, Sarai and the screen studies journal Bioscope. His publications include Making Meaning in Indian Cinema (2000), The Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema (2010), and the Marg special issue, Documentary Now (2018).
Ravinder Kaur is Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi. Her recent publications include the edited volume Too Many Men, Too Few Women: Social Consequences of Gender Imbalance in India and China (2016).
Reetika Khera is Associate Professor of Economics and Public Systems Groups at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Recent publications include Dissent on Aadhaar: Big Data Meets Big Brother (2018).
Rita Kothari is a Gujarati, Sindhi and English language author and translator. She has authored Memories and Movements (2016) and has co-edited Decentring Translation Studies: India and Beyond (2009) with Judy Wakabayashi. She is currently associated with the English department, Ashoka University.
Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay is Assistant Professor of History and Political economy at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali. Recent publications include a chapter (with Ranabir Samaddar) in the edited volume Caste and the Frontiers of Postcolonial Accumulation (2017) and an article in the journal Modern Asian Studies (2016).
Rochelle Pinto is a research fellow at the L’Institut des ÉtudesAvancées, Nantes. She has recently contributed a chapter to the edited volume Commodities and Affect (2017).
Roma Chatterji is Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. She is the author of Writing Identities: Folklore and Performance in Purulia, West Bengal (2009) and Speaking with Pictures: Folk Art and the Narrative Imagination in India (2016).
Ronki Ram teaches political science at Panjab University, Chandigarh. His latest publications include a chapter in Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Sikhism (2017) and articles in the journals Contributions to Indian Sociology (2017) and Economic and Political Weekly (2017).
Rudolf C. Heredia, S. J. was Director of Research and Editor of the institute’s journal Social Action at the Indian Social Institute. His recent publications include Changing Gods: Rethinking Conversion in India (2007) and Taking Sides, Reservations Quotas and Minority Rights in India (2012).
Rukmini Bhaya Nair is Professor Emerita, Linguistics and English, at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Recent publications include the critical work Poetry in a Time of Terror: Essays in the Postcolonial Preternatural (2009), the novel Mad Girl’s Love Song (2013) and ‘Epithymetics: the Psychology of Desire’ in Psychology: ICSSR Research Surveys and Explorations ed. G. Misra (2019).
S. Imtiaz Hasnain is Professor of Sociolinguistics, Department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University. He is currently working on the documentation of endangered languages and a collaborative multi-varsity project on linguistic activation and bidirectional reading.
Saba Sharma has recently completed a PhD at the Department of Geography in the University of Cambridge on citizenship in the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts of Western Assam.
Salil Misra teaches history at Ambedkar University, Delhi, where he is currently pro vice chancellor. His publications broadly centre on the themes of communal politics, nationalism, the politics of language and social science teaching.
Samir Kumar Das is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calcutta. His recent publications includes Migrations, Identities and Democratic Practices in India (2018) and India: Democracy and Violence (2015, edited).
Sandeep Mertia is a doctoral student at the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, and Urban Doctoral Fellow at New York University. He is an ICT engineer by training, with research interests in software studies, science and technology studies and anthropology.
Sanjay Chaturvedi is Professor of International Relations at South Asian University, New Delhi. His recent publications include Environmental Sustainability from Himalaya to the Ocean: Struggles and Innovations in China and India (co-edited with Shikui Dong and Jayanta Bandyopadhyay) (2017) and Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change (co-authored with Timothy Doyle) (2015).
Sanjay Palshikar is Professor at the University of Hyderabad. Recent publications include Evil and the Philosophy of Retribution: Modern Commentaries on the Bhagavad-Gita (2014).
Sanjit Chakraborty teaches at Indian Institute of Management Indore and he has been a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at University of Hyderabad. He has published articles in the journals Philosophia, Philosophical Readings, APA Newsletters, ESEP and JICPR. Book publications include The Labyrinth of Mind and World (2019) and Understanding Meaning and World (2016)
Sanjoy Hazarika is International Director, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative. An activist, author, journalist and film-maker who specializes in understanding India’s north-east, his most recent book is Strangers No More: New Narratives from India’s Northeast (2018).
Santana Khanikar is a political scientist who teaches at JNU. Her recent book State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India (2018) draws on ethnographic fieldwork of policing practices in Delhi and anti-secessionist army operations in Assam.
Santosh Desai is a columnist, media critic and the author of Mother Pious Lady: Making Sense of Everyday India (2010). In his professional life, Santosh is the MD and CEO of Futurebrands, a brand and consumer consultancy company.
Sarojini Ganju Thakur is a former civil servant with the IAS (1977 batch). Recent publications include a manual for trainers on gender and governance and Gender Responsive Planning and Budgeting in Bhutan: From Analysis to Action (2016).
Sasheej Hegde teaches sociology at University of Hyderabad. His publications have been on the themes of law/ethics, the sociology of knowledge, and modern Indian political thought.
Satish C. Aikant is former Professor and Head, Department of English, H. N. B. Garhwal University, Uttarakhand. His publications include Critical Spectrum: Essays on Literary Culture (2004) and Postcolonial Indian Literature: Toward a Critical Framework (2018).
Satish Padmanabhan is a journalist and deputy editor with Outlook magazine. He has a special interest in theory, literature and the arts.
Savita Bhakhry retired as joint director (research), National Human Rights Commission of India. In 2016, she brought out a revised edition of her book Children in India and Their Rights.
Seema Khanwalkar is an adjunct professor (social sciences) at the Faculty of Design, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, and visiting faculty at the IIM Ahmedabad and NID Ahmedabad. Her research interests include applied semiotics, design semantics and cultural anthropology.
Shahzad Gani is a doctoral student in engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His current research focus is on understanding the role that anthropogenic and natural processes play in driving air pollution, with a focus on India.
Shail Mayaram is a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. Her latest book is The Secret Life of Indian Nationalism: Transitions from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana (2019).
Shashi Tharoor currently serves as Member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Former Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information at the UN, and a former Minister in the Government of India, he has authored nineteen books of fiction and non-fiction, most recently, The Hindu Way (2019).
Shiv Visvanathan teaches at O. P. Jindal University and is Director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge systems. He is best known for his contributions to developing the field of science and technology studies and for the concept of “cognitive justice”, a term he coined.
Shivangini Tandon is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Women’s Studies, Aligarh Muslim University. Currently visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, she is working on the representation of emotions in the literary cultures of early modern South Asia.
Shivani Chopra is Head, Department of Hindi, DAV College, Panjab University, Chandigarh. She has contributed several research articles to Hindi journals like Samved, Samyantar and Naya Path and to the CSDS Social Sciences Encyclopedia in Hindi.
Sibaji Bandyopadhyay is former Professor of Cultural Studies, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, and former Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University. Recent publications include Three Essays on the Mahābhārata (2016) and the text of the graphic novel Vyasa: The Beginning (2017).
Sibesh Bhattacharya is a former professor of ancient history, culture and archaeology, Allahabad University, and former national fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. Recent publications include Some Essays of Tagore: History, Politics, Society (2018) and the co-edited volume Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata (2018).
Siddharth Peter De Souza is a doctoral candidate in Law at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He works on the role of indicators for measuring access to justice in plural justice systems and is the founder of Justice Adda, a legal design consultancy.
Souvik Naha is Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of History, Durham University. Recent books include Ethical Concerns in Sport Governance (co-edited with David Hassan) (2019) and FIFA World Cup and Beyond: Sport, Culture, Media and Governance (co-edited with Kausik Bandyopadhyay and Shakya Mitra) (2018).
Souvik Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor and head of department at Presidency University, Calcutta. Recent publications include Videogames and Storytelling: Reading Games and Playing Books (2015) and Videogames and Postcolonialism: Empire Plays Back (2017).
Sudarsan Padmanabhan teaches at the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty at IIT Madras. His interests are in social and political systems, Indian medical ethics and Indian philosophy.Sudha Gopalakrishnan is one of the founders of Sahapedia. She has prepared successful nomination dossiers for the recognition of Kutiyattam, Vedic Chanting and Ramlila as UNESCO Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
Suhas Palshikar taught political science at Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. He is Chief Editor of the journal Studies in Indian Politics. His recent publications include Indian Democracy (2017).
Suhrud Dave has been a judge of the High Court of Gujarat and chairman, Gujarat State Law Commission and Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission. He has written on Indian personal law and is the author of the monograph The Privy Council, The British Courts and the Personal Laws of India (2014), Nuclear India (2017) and The Supreme Court, The High Courts and the Personal Laws of India (2018).
Supriya Chaudhuri is Professor Emerita in the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her most recent publication is the co-edited Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World (2018).
Surinder S. Jodhka is Professor of Sociology, JNU. His publications include the edited volume A Handbook of Rural India (2018), Caste in Contemporary India (2018) and Caste (2012).
Susan Visvanathan is Professor of Sociology at JNU. She is a fiction writer, besides being an author of several sociological works, including The Christians of Kerala (1993) and Adi Shankara and Other Stories (2017).
Tabish Khair is an associate professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. His latest publications include the academic work The New Xenophobia (2016) and the novel A Night of Happiness (2018).
Taslima Nasrin is a writer, physician and human rights activist. She is the recipient of several international awards, including the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought and the Kurt Tucholsky Award from Swedish PEN. She has written forty books in Bengali and her works have been translated into thirty different languages.
Thomas Abraham is a Bangalore-based author and former professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Twentieth Century Plague: The Story of SARS (2005) and Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication (2018).
Timeri N. Murari began his career writing for The Guardian. He has since written nineteen works of fiction, including a children’s book, novels for young adults, stage and screenplays. His latest novel is Chanakya Returns (2014).
Tista Bagchi is former Professor of Linguistics at Delhi University. Her professional interests are in semantic and syntactic theory, historical linguistics and bioethics. She is also an accomplished musician.
Tridip Suhrud is Professor and Director, Archives, CEPT University, and Director of the L D Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad. He has published the critical editions of M. K. Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj (2018) and An Autobiography or the Story of My Experiments with Truth (2018).
TRS Sharma has worked in several universities and research centres. He was a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study. His recent publications include Reading Alfred Korzybski Through Inter-Theoretic Explorations: Indian and Western (2018) and Dialogics of Cultures in Ancient Indian Literatures (2014).
Ujjwal Kumar Singh is Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, and was ICCR Chair Professor in UTS, Australia. He is the author of Political Prisoners in India (1998), The State, Democracy and Anti-Terror Laws in India (2007) and The Election Commission of India: Institutionalizing Democratic Uncertainties (2019).
Ulka Anjaria is Professor of English at Brandeis University, Massachusetts. She is the author of Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture (2019) and the editor of A History of the Indian Novel in English (2015).
Uma Chakravarti is an Indian historian and feminist who taught at the Miranda House, University of Delhi. An activist, she has authored several books including Gendering Caste (2003) and Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism (1988).
Uma Vangal is Visiting Professor of Film at Kenyon College, Ohio, and an adjunct faculty at Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. She writes ‘The FitMuS Test’, a column in The News Minute that analyses films from the gender perspective of popular Indian films.
Usha Mudiganti is an Assistant Professor, School of Letters, Ambedkar University, Delhi. Her research interests include gender stereotypes in India, constructions of childhoods in literature and society and the tropes of childhood in postcolonial literature.
V. Geetha is Editorial Director, Tara Books. A feminist historian who writes widely in Tamil and English, her most recent publication is Undoing Impunity: Speech after Sexual Violence (2016).
Valerian Rodrigues holds the Ambedkar Chair at Ambedkar University, Delhi. His recent publications include Conversations with Ambedkar: 10 Ambedkar Memorial Lectures (2019), Speaking for Karnataka (co-authored with Rajendra Chenni, Nataraj Huliyar and S. Japhet) (2018) and The Indian Parliament: A Democracy at Work (co-authored with B. L. Shankar) (2011).
Vanamala Viswanatha is a Professor at Azim Premji University, Karnataka. Her recent work includes The Life of Harishchandra, the English translation of a medieval Kannada poetic text (2017) and Indira Bai, a collaborative translation of the first social novel in Kannada (2019).
Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly is a former professor at the Institute of Law, Nirma University and Centre for Rural Studies and the Lal Bahadur Shashtri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie. Her recent monograph on Gujarat’s protest movements (2015) and edited volumes have been on land rights (2016, 2018), on land titling (2017), and on India’s Scheduled Areas: Untangling governance, law and politics (2019).
Vibha Puri Das is a career civil servant who retired as Secretary to Government of India. Recent publications include short essays in The Essential RS Tolia (2017), Uttarakhand @ 15 (2016) and a monograph on home-based workers for use in the Curriculum for Human Rights (2000).
Vijaya Singh teaches English literature in the Department of English at Post-Graduate Government College, Sector 11, Chandigarh. She has published Level Crossing: Railway Journeys in Hindi Cinema (2017). She is also a filmmaker and has made two short films: A documentary on railway stations: Unscheduled Arrivals (2015) and a fiction film: Andhere Mein (2016).
Vijayanka Nair is an A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Scholar-Leader Fellow at The New School India China Institute. Recent publications include an article on India’s Aadhaar initiative in Contemporary South Asia (2018) and the South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (2019).
Vimala Ramachandran was formerly Professor from the National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration. Her recent publications include Inside Indian Schools: The Enigma of Equity and Quality (2018) and Getting the Right Teachers into Right Schools: Managing India’s Teacher Workforce (2018).
Vipul Mudgal is the Director of ‘Common Cause’. He was a visiting senior fellow at CSDS and where he directed the ‘Publics and Policies’ Programme. He has published Claiming India from Below: Activism and Democratic Transformation (2016).
Virginius Xaxa is former Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics and Tata Institute of Social Sciences Guwahati Campus. He has published State, Society and Tribes: Issues in Post-Colonial India (2008).
Vrinda Dalmiya is Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, Manoa. She is the author of Caring to Know: Comparative Care Ethics, Feminist Epistemology and the Mahābhārata (2016) and co-editor of Exploring Agency in the Mahābhārata: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma (2018).
Yogendra Kumar has been the Indian ambassador in Tajikistan and the Philippines (concurrent accreditation to Palau, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands) and High Commissioner in Namibia. He has authored a book on diplomatic dimension of India’s maritime challenges (2015) and edited and contributed to a book on maritime order in the Indian Ocean (2017).
Yogesh Snehi is an assistant professor of history at Ambedkar University, Delhi. His recent publications include the monograph Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab: Dreams, Memories, Territoriality (2019) and the co-edited volume Modernity and Changing Social Fabric of Punjab and Haryana (2018).
Yousuf Saeed is a Delhi-based independent film-maker and author who has produced documentaries such as Inside Ladakh, Basant, Khayal Darpan, Khusrau Darya Prem Ka and Campus Rising. His publications include the monograph Muslim Devotional Art in India (2012).