Ilan Pappé (born 1954) is an Israeli historian and activist. He is the director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies at University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.
Bernard D'Mello is a senior journalist with the Economic & Political Weekly and a civil rights activist with the Committee for the Protection of Democratic Rights, Mumbai.
Richard W. Franke is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA. He has written extensively on Kerala.