Neloufer de Mel is Professor of English at the Department of English, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is the author of Women and the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in 20th Century Sri Lanka (2001) and Militarizing Sri Lanka: Popular Culture, Memory and Narrative in the Armed Conflict (2007).
Mahitosh Mandal is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata. His research interests include Dalit studies and psychoanalysis.