Amita Kanekar is a Mumbai-based writer, whose well-received debut novel A Spoke in the Wheel was published by Harper Collins Publishers, India. Kanekar teaches comparative mythology at the University of Mumbai. She was born in Goa in 1965. She is currently (2006) working on her second novel. She has lived in the US as a child, and also teaches architectural history. Kanekar is currently researching material and travelling for her second novel, on the rebellion of a little-known peasant community in the time of the Mughal ruler of India, Aurangzeb. Kanekar's first novel about the Buddha, A Spoke in the Wheel, has earned favourable reviews. Published in 2005 by Harper Collins India, the book went into its second impression that year itself.
Manoranjan Mohanty is Chairperson, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi. He is editor of Social Change and a former editor
Saurabh Dube is an Indian scholar whose research explores questions of colonialism and modernity, law and legalities, caste and community, evangelization and empire, and popular religion and subalt
R. Mohan took voluntary retirement from his position as Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) in 2016. He is currently a Senior Consultant in Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation (GIFT) and Visitin
Lucinda Ramberg is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of the monograph, Given to the Goddess: South Indian Dev
