Humra Quraishi is a Delhi-based writer and journalist. She is the author of Kashmir: The Untold Story and The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles which she co-authored with Khushwant Singh.
Atig Ghosh is Assistant Professor of History, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan; Honorary Researcher, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata; and part-time lecturer of history at Jadavpur University
Kristoffel Lieten is a professor at the University of Amsterdam, where he teaches development sociology, and where he holds the chair of Child Labour Studies on behalf of the International Institut
Very little is known about the two secretaries of the embassy sent by Tipu Sultan to Constantinople, Khwaja Abdul Qadir, who wrote the Waqai-i Manazil-i Rum, and Sayyid Jafar.
Jitheesh P.M. holds an M.Phil degree in history from Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala. He contributes to various Indian and foreign publications such as Frontline, The Hind
