Kaustav Chakraborty is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Southfield (Loreto) College, Darjeeling. He is the 2024-25 fellow at The Nantes Institute of Advanced Study, France. He has been a Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. His areas of interest are Queer Studies, Indigenous Literatures and Cultures, Folklore, Cultures of Nationalism, Philosophy of Intimacy, and South Asian Literatures. His major publications include Tagore and Nationalism (Co edited with K. L. Tuteja), The Politics of Belonging in Contemporary India: Anxiety and Intimacy (edited volume), Queering Tribal Folktales from East and Northeast India, Nations and Nationalisms: A Short Introduction, The Queer and the Vernacular Languages in India: Studies in Contemporary Texts and Cultures (Co edited with Anup Shekhar Chakraborty), and The Collected Short Stories of Kazi Nazrul Islam (Co edited with Syed Manzoorul Islam).
Himadri Roy is Professor in the School of Gender and Development Studies of Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. He teaches queer studies, gender and media and gender and literature. His article titled ‘Crossing Temporal Space for Disclosing One’s Sexual Identity: A Psychoanalytical Study of Memories in March (2011)’ published by IIAS, Shimla (2014), has been critically acclaimed, and his article titled, ‘Unveiling the Hidden Desire: Cruising Places of Gay and Bisexual Men in New Delhi’, is considered a very significant work. He has published academic books on gay men and Bollywood, titled ‘Reel and the Real: Portrayal of Gay men in Bollywood Films’ and Author to Auteur: Theories and Film Adaptations. He is also a novelist, and his novel Tales of Hope Chasers has been considered as a ‘Must Read’ by the Times of India.