Dr. Malem Ningthouja (N.M. Meetei) received his B.A. (Hons.) History from Hindu College, Delhi and M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in History from the University of Delhi. He is currently a member of the Editorial board of the journal Revolutionary Democracy, Founder-cum-Chairperson of Campaign for Peace & Democracy (Manipur), Founder-cum-Managing Trustee of the Labour Research and Organisation Foundation (LAROF), and an alternate member of the International Coordination Committee of the International League of People’s Struggle. He is also a member of the Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation, the Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners, and the Indian History Congress. He is the author of the books, Freedom from India: A history of Manipur Nationalism, Spectrum, Guwahati, 2011 and India’s War on Democracy: The Debate on AFSPA 1958, Waba Publications, Imphal, 2014. He had also edited Professor Sanajaoba’s Right to Self-determination of Manipur, CPDM, New Delhi, 2013 and Comrade Irabot and Capitalism, IRCC and CPDM, Imphal, 2013.
Madiha R. Tahir is an independent journalist reporting on conflict, culture and politics in Pakistan. Her work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Al Jazeera, Vice, The National, Guernica, The New Inq
Ashish Rajadhyaksha is co-editor of the Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema (1999), author of Ritwik Ghatak: A Return to the Epic (1984) and Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the
