Namita Waikar was born in Mumbai in 1961 and studied Biochemistry at the University of Mumbai. She is managing editor of the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) where she leads and writes for the Grindmill Songs Project and oversees its translations programme. She is also a partner in a chemistry databases firm in Pune, which is the culmination of her work experience as a biochemist and a software project manager.
Ananya Vajpeyi is the author of the award-winning, Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India. She works at the intersection of intellectual history, political theory and critica
Nidhi S. Sabharwal is Associate Professor, Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education, National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), New Delhi.
Patrick Bond, based in South Africa since 1990 mainly at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Wits University, recently authored Elite Transition (third edition), South Africa: The Present as Histor
