Kamran Asdar Ali is a Professor of Anthropology, Middle East Studies, and Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He is an expert on issues pertaining to health and gender, ethnicity, class politics, sexuality, and popular culture and has conducted field research in Pakistan, Egypt, and Mexico. He has authored and edited numerous journal

Victoria is an Associate Professor of Political Sociology at the Social Research Institute at University College London. Her research interests are in the sociology of migration with a particular focus on citizenship and political exclusion. Much of her research has focused on migrant and diasporic Bengali populations, including the North Indian 'Bihari' Muslims who fled

Artist, Irfan Hasan graduated from the National College of Arts in 2006 with a major Indo-Persian miniature painting. Hasan holds numerous awards including the Hallett Independent Emerging Artist Award and Asian Art in London Award 2018. He has held residencies in New York, Massachusetts, Kolkata, and Tehran and has hosted several solo projects and group

Aarathi is an author and a scientist who was educated in the West Indies and in the UK. She holds a Ph.D. in molecular genetics (Imperial College London), and a postgraduate certificate in osteoarchaeology (University of Reading). She is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Global Health at University College London, where her

Willem van Schendel is a Professor of Modern South Asian History at theUniversity of Amsterdam. He is one of the leading experts on Bangladesh and has written many books on the region including “The History of Bangladesh; Embedding Agricultural Commodities: Using historical evidence, the 1840s -1940s; and The Bengal Borderland; Beyond State and Nation in

Tahera Hasan is the Founder and Director of the Imkaan Welfare Organisation. A lawyer by profession, she specializes in family law. In her role as Director of Imkaan, Tahera works closely with the Pakistani Bengali community particularly those living in Machar Colony, Karachi. Here she has been creating opportunities in health, education, sanitation, and legal

Sohana Bajpai –  Music Practitioner, Researcher, and Ethnomusicologist

An eminent labor and development activist for the last four decades, Karamat Ali is the founding member of the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research. He is also a founding member of various local and regional networks like Pakistan Peace Coalition, Pakistan-India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy, and South Asia Labour Forum. He

Bilal is a BBC Urdu-based journalist and specialist in minority communities in Pakistan.