A C Sinha is the former dean of the School of Social Sciences at the North Eastern Hill University, Shillong.

Aurangzaib Khan writes from Peshawar.

Binod Bhattarai is a journalist, currently a research fellow at the Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communication, Shantou, China.

C K Lal is a columnist for this magazine and for the Nepali Times.

Daud Khan is a freelance journalist in Peshawar.

Deepa A is a journalist based in New Delhi.

Greg Constantine is a photographer, currently at work documenting stateless ethnic minorities. His work in the Tarai was supported in part by Oxford Brookes University in the UK. More at www.gregconstantine.com.

Hani Yousuf covers arts and literature from Karachi.

Htein Lin is a Burmese visual and performance artist.

Kul Chandra Gautam is former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF.

Mayabhushan is a journalist working out of Delhi.

Michael Vatikiotis is Asia regional director in Singapore for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue.

Min Ratna Bajracharya is a Kathmandu-based photojournalist.

Rubana is a researcher working with Writers Workshop in Calcutta, as well as executive editor of the new TV Southasia.

Sahar Ali is the Pakistan country representative for Panos South Asia.

Thierry Dodin is a Tibetologist affiliated with the University of Bonn, and director of TibetInfoNet, the successor of Tibet Information Network.

Tristan Bruslé is a geographer with the French National Research Centre, and has been studying Nepali labour migration to India and Qatar since 2001.

Cover photograph by Min Ratna Bajracharya