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Sanjoy Hazarika is an author, journalist, filmmaker and professor. He is the author of Bhopal: The Lessons of a Tragedy, Writing on the Wall: Reflections on the North-East and Rites of Passage, among other critically acclaimed books. Hazarika has been a consulting editor for the Statesman, and has previously worked for Associated Press and the New York Times, as well as a research professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. Hazarika is the international director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and a former member of India’s National Security Advisory Board.

Attia Hosain was a British-Indian novelist, author, writer, broadcaster, journalist and actor. She was a woman of letters and a diasporic writer. She wrote in English although her mother tongue was Urdu.

Carl Muller (1935- ) is an unusual man. He is no academic; kicked out of three schools, he never went to university and served in the Royal Ceylon Navy, the Ceylon Army and the Port of Colombo as a pilot station signalman. In advertising briefly, he was also involved in the travel trade, and donned the robes of an entertainer. A pianist and a journalist, Carl Muller has a large number of published titles, ranging from poetry to science fiction, under his belt. But it is his ‘Burgher novels’ that have earned him special acclaim, especially the first one, The Jam Fruit Tree, which won the Gratiaen Memorial Prize, 1993, for the best work of English literature by a Sri Lankan. He has also won the State Literary Award for his historical novel, Children of the Lion.
He lives with his wife, Sortain, in Kandy.