Arundhati Roy’s books include, most recently, Listening to Grasshoppers.
Pankaj Mishra’s new book, The Revolt Against the West, is coming out in 2011.
Hilal Bhatt was born in Srinigar and is a freelance Kashmiri journalist.
Angana P. Chatterji is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, California Institute of Integral Studies and Co-convener of the International People’s Tribunal in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics—including Pirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome—as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London.