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Sonia Jabbar is an independent writer, currently working on a non-fiction book on Kashmir. She was the recipient of the Wiscomp Scholar of Peace Fellowship, 2000. Mina Kumar lives in New York. Amit Chaudhuri lives in Calcutta and Freedom Song, published in 1998, won the Los Angeles Times Prize for fiction. He has also written the novel, A New World. Chaudhuri’s criticism, poetry and short stories have been published in several journals including The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, The Spectator, and The Observer. He has edited The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature, Picador 2001. Suketu Mehta is a fiction writer and journalist who lives in New York. He is a winner of the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize for his fiction, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, and a SAJA award for his journalism. He is currently working on a non-fiction book on Bombay. Amitava Kumar is the author of Passport Photos and is a literary columnist on Tehelka.com. He teaches at PennState University. Avtar Singh is assistant editor at Man’s World magazine in Bombay. His first novel. The Beauty of These Present Things was published last year. Anita Roy is head of Publishing, Dorling Kindersley, New Delhi. Urvashi Butalia is co-founder of Kali for Women and the author of The Other Side of Silence, Viking Penguin, 1998.