Dibyesh Anand Author

Professor Dibyesh Anand is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement and Employability) at the University of Westminster. A professor of international relations, he is the author of monographs "Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination”, "Tibet: A Victim of Geopolitics", and “Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear” and has spoken about, and published extensively on, varied topics including postcolonial politics and international relations, Tibet, China-India border dispute, Hindu nationalism, Islamophobia, and colonial practices of postcolonial states.

Professor Nitasha Kaul is a multidisciplinary academic, novelist, economist, poet, and public intellectual. She holds a Chair in Politics, International Relations, and Critical Interdisciplinary Studies and is Director of Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD), University of Westminster. She has published widely on themes relating to democracy, political economy, Hindutva/Indian politics, technology, identity, rise of right-wing nationalism, feminist and postcolonial critiques, small states in geopolitics, regions of Bhutan, Kerala, and Kashmir. Her books include Imagining Economics Otherwise (Routledge, 2007), Future Tense (Harper Collins India, 2020), Man-Asian Literary Prize shortlisted Residue (Rupa, 2014) and Can You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak? (co-edited; Kali for Women Press, 2020). Her interventions on politics, democracy, gender, and human rights have appeared in major international radio, televisual, and print media. She provided expert testimony on Kashmir at the US Congress in 2019, and is the recipient of multiple research grants and awards for her work across genres and disciplines.