Siddalingaiah is a major Kannada poet and one of the founders of the Dalit Sangharsha Samiti. He has also written two plays, and his doctoral research was on folk deities. He has served twice as member of the Karnataka Legislative Council. A professor at Bangalore University, he is also chairman of the Kannada Development Authority.
Giles Tillotson is well known as a writer and lecturer on Indian history and architecture. He taught at the University of London from 1990 to 2004, since when he has been living in Gurgaon, near De
Arjun Ghosh is Faculty, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, India. He has a Ph.D. from Centre for English Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru Univ
Ramnika Gupta is founder and President of Ramnika Foundation, member of the CPI(M), a tribal rights champion, former trade union leader, politician, writer and editor. She is the coordinator of the