Ranabir Samaddar is a leading social scientist and director of the Calcutta Research Group. He is known for his work on issues of migration, peace and human rights, belongs to the school of critical thinking and is considered one of the foremost theorists in the field of forced migration studies. The much-acclaimed The Politics of Dialogue was a culmination of his long work on justice, rights and peace.
Judith Squires is joint editor of Cultural Remix: Theories of Politics and the Popular (L&W 1993), and was, until 1997, editor of New Formations. She lectures in the politics department at the
Sudha Pai was professor at the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, and rector (pro vice-chancellor) at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.