Himadri Roy is Professor in the School of Gender and Development Studies at Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. His work spans LGBT Studies, Gender and Cinema, Media, and Literature, with notable books including Cinematic Adaptation of Literary Texts (2023), Author to Auteur (2021), and Reel and the Real (2019). He coedited Queer Provincialism: Narratives and Resilience of Rural India (2025) with Kaustav Chakraborty. He is also a novelist. The Hope Chasers received attention from The Times of India, while L'Amour of Siliguri has been praised for challenging gender binaries. He has published widely and serves on several academic boards and editorial panels across India.

Kaustav Chakraborty is Associate Professor of English at Southfield (Loreto) College, Darjeeling. He has held fellowships at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and the Nantes Institute for Advanced Study, France. His important publications include Abrasive, Soft and Ecological: Masculinities in North India (2026), Queer and the Vernacular Languages in India: Studies in Contemporary Texts and Cultures (coedited with Anup Shekhar Chakraborty, 2023), Queering Tribal Folktales from East and Northeast India (2021) and The Politics of Belonging in Contemporary India: Anxiety and Intimacy (2019).