Anuradha Bhasin is the Executive Editor of Kashmir Times, Indian-administered Jammu & Kashmir's oldest English daily newspaper (established 1964). She was a Commonwealth Fellow in 2016. In August 2019, Ms Bhasin petitioned India's Supreme Court against the drastic curbs imposed on J&K's media by India's Hindu nationalist government, which led to the court mildly censoring the government in January 2020. Ms Bhasin is the author of a forthcoming book (2022) on life in Indian-administered Jammu & Kashmir since August 2019. Her father Ved Bhasin (1929-2015) was the doyen of print journalism in Kashmir.
Sumantra Bose is a comparative political scientist. He is the author of , published globally by Yale University Press in November 2021. The book, also published in an , has had advance reviews in Foreign Affairs, The Literary Review and The Independent, among other media. Professor Bose is the author of seven previous books including Secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey, and the Future of Secularism (Cambridge), Transforming India: Challenges to the World's Largest Democracy (Harvard), Contested Lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka (Harvard), and Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (Oxford). You can enter discount code YKASH on the checkout page of the Yale University Press website for 30% off .
Manish Tewari is a Member of India's Parliament, elected to its Lok Sabha (House of the People) from Punjab state. He is a national spokesperson of the Indian National Congress and the general secretary of its foreign affairs department. Mr Tewari is a former Minister of State (independent charge) of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India. A prolific columnist in Indian media, he has been a distinguished senior fellow of the Atlantic Council. Mr Tewari is a practicing lawyer in India's Supreme Court.
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Christopher Coker is Director of ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS and former Professor of International Relations at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.