Deepti Misri is a literary and cultural critic at the University of Colorado whose work focuses on gender, violence and representation. Her areas of interest span South Asian literary and cultural production, transnational feminist studies, and feminist theory and criticism.

Ananya Chakravarti is a professor at Georgetown University whose work focuses on early modern South Asia, the Portuguese empire, colonial Brazil, Brahmanism and the abuses of history. She is the author of The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodation and the Imagination of Empire in Early Modern Brazil and India.

Manan Ahmed is an associate professor at Columbia University’s Data Science Institute. Ahmed’s areas of specialization include the intellectual history of Islam in South and Southeast Asia; frontier spaces and the city in medieval South Asia; and colonial and postcolonial North India and Pakistan.

The Sikh religion has been underrepresented and misrepresented in the popular media, and these problems have contributed to the serious challenges that Sikhs experience today, including negative stereotypes, discriminatory policies, and violent hate crimes. 

Ferdinando Sardella is an assistant professor in the history of religions at The University of Stockholm in Stockholm, Sweden. He has been a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and specializes in contemporary Hinduism, especially in South Asia. He speaks Italian, Swedish and English.

Gavin Flood is the academic director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies in Oxford, England. He specializes in the religions of South Asia and lectures on Hinduism.