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Bindhu Malini Narayanaswamy is a singer trained in both Carnatic and Hindustani music, and hails from a family of musicians. She was a disciple of Padma Bhushan Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan, who lived in Kolkata and was the oldest exponent of the Gwalior Gharana. She has composed and sung for jingles and films in Hindi, Kannada, and Tamil. Since 2014, Bindhu has also been part of a musical narrative on Hazrat Amir Khusrau. She and her sisters Jaya and Archana perform ‘Akatha Kahani’ a creative work that integrates song, dance, and storytelling to share their journeys in discovering Kabir.

He is Associate Professor at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Fudan University, and the author of Imagining the Nation and Controlling the State:The Literary Policies and Movements of NanJing Kuomintang Goverment, 1928-1948 (2003). 

Ashis Nandy began as a sociologist and clinical psychologist but has, over the years, strayed into areas outside formal social sciences and normal academic concerns. His research interests now centre on the political psychology of violence, cultures of knowledge, utopias and visions, human potentialities, and futures. Presently he is working on genocide. The running themes in his work have been his concern and respect for marginalized categories and systems of knowledge and a robust scepticism towards expert-driven, packaged, professional solutions to human problems.

TEJASWINI NIRANJANA is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She studied English and Aesthetics at the University of Bombay, and Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles. She taught for ten years in the English Department of the University of Hyderabad before moving to Bangalore to help set up the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) in 1998 which until 2014 offered an innovative PhD in Cultural Studies, the first of its kind in India.