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Diviani Chauduri is an Assistant Professor at Shiv Nadar University.

She obtained a PhD in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Her doctoral research focused on manifestations of the colonial modern in domestic spatial relations, material culture and architectural forms in South Asian Muslim women’s Anglophone life writing and novels. She is currently developing a book manuscript that brings together archaeological and anthropocene fictions in order to examine shifting relationships between reality, representation, and the past.

DOYEETA MAJUMDAR is an Assistant Professor at Jadavpur University.

She has a PhD from the University of St Andrews, UK. She earlier taught at the University of Edinburgh and Shiv Nadar University.

Her primary research and teaching interests include early modern studies, medieval poetry, law and literature, early modern and 20th c. political theory, history of ideas, translation.

HUZAIFA OMAIR SIDDIQI is an Assistant Professor at Ashoka University.

He received his PhD from the Centre for English Studies at JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University).

His research interests range from German Idealism and British Romanticism to phenomenology, existentialism, and structuralist literary theory as well as contemporary 21st-century philosophers like Robert Brandom, Quentin Meillassoux and Ray Brassier. He is currently working on a history of the reception of European philosophy by South Asian thinkers like Muhammad Iqbal and B.R. Ambedkar, tentatively titled Subcontinental Philosophy.

RIJULA DAS is an author and a translator.

She holds a PhD in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Her debut novel was published by Picador India as A Death in Shonagachhi (2021) and internationally as Small Deaths (2022) by Amazon Crossings. It won the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award 2021 and was longlisted for several prestigious awards, including the JCB Prize for Literature. It was translated into French, Russian, and German and film rights were optioned. Her translation of Nabarun Bhattacharya’s Beggar’s Bedlam (Seagull Books, 2025) will be followed by its sequel Mausoleum (Seagull Books, 2027).

SHEKHAR SINGH is currently the Executive Director at Liberal Arts Centre.

He has taught at Shiv Nadar University and the University of Delhi. He received his PhD from the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. His research interests include social and political philosophy; philosophy of history; anti-foundationalism; theory-practice debate; normative theory and its critics; philosophy of Michael Oakeshott, Richard Rorty and Raymond Geuss.

SRAJANA KAIKINI is an Assistant Professor at Krea University.

She is a poet, artist, essayist and curator with more than a decade of work spanning several exhibitions, projects, residencies and fellowships globally. She is the author of A Metaphysics for the Curatorial (Routledge 2026), Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene: Pluriversal Perspectives (Springer Nature, 2024-2026).

VIVEK RADHAKRISHNAN is an Assistant Professor at Krea University.

Before joining Krea, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay. He received his PhD from Manipal Academy of Higher Education.

His areas of research are Kant's philosophy, history of normative ethics and contemporary Indian philosophy. At Krea, he teaches courses on philosophical methods, ancient Greek philosophy and moral philosophy. Dr Radhakrishnan also translates influential philosophical texts into Tamil and is keen on seeing classical works of philosophy available in regional Indian languages.