Archives: Authors

Abubakar Siddique is a journalist with Radio Free Europe in Prague, covering Afghanistan and Pakistan. He has spent the past decade researching and writing about security, political, humanitarian and cultural issues in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Pashtun heartland along the border region where he was born. In 2006 he co-authored a report with Professor Barnett Rubin for the US Institute of Peace that was the first analytical work to address the importance of Pakistan’s tribal areas, ‘Resolving the Pakistan-Afghanistan Stalemate’.

Trevor is a research assistant in the South Asia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he previously served as a Junior Fellow focusing on South Asian security and U.S. grand strategy. He completed his bachelor’s degree with honors at the University of Chicago.

Ashley J. Tellis, a distinguished scholar of India, is the Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.

Komal Porecha runs her own consultancy and design firm. She was a writer at Elle Décor and is a mother of twins.

Reshma K. Barshikar is an erstwhile investment banker and currently a freelance travel and lifestyle writer who contributes to India Today Travel Plus, Harper’s Bazaar, and Grazia among others. She is co-curator of a leading e-commerce website, giftloop.in, and the co-founder of the literary blog, The Caterpillar Café.

Rosie Llewellyn-Jones PhD holds a degree in Urdu from SOAS University of London. A renowned historian of colonial India, she is editor of Chowkidar, the journal of the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA). Her books include The Last King in India, and Lucknow 1857.

Moni Mohsin was born and raised in Lahore, Pakistan. Married with two children, she divides her time between London and Lahore.

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was one of India’s most distinguished scientists, responsible for the development of India’s first satellite launch vehicle and the operationalization of strategic missiles. He was also the President of India between 2002 and 2007.