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DOYEETA MAJUMDAR is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Jadavpur University.

She has a PhD from the University of St Andrews, UK. She earlier taught at the University of Edinburgh and Shiv Nadar University.

Her primary research and teaching interests include early modern studies, medieval poetry, law and literature, early modern and 20th c. political theory, history of ideas, translation.

HUZAIFA OMAIR SIDDIQI is an Assistant Professor of English at Ashoka University.

He received his PhD from the Centre for English Studies at JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University).

His research interests range from German Idealism and British Romanticism to phenomenology, existentialism, and structuralist literary theory as well as contemporary 21st-century philosophers like Robert Brandom, Quentin Meillassoux and Ray Brassier. He is currently working on a history of the reception of European philosophy by South Asian thinkers like Muhammad Iqbal and B.R. Ambedkar, tentatively titled Subcontinental Philosophy.

VIVEK RADHAKRISHNAN is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Division of Humanities & Social Sciences, Krea University.

Before joining Krea, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay. He received his PhD from Manipal Academy of Higher Education.

His areas of research are Kant's philosophy, history of normative ethics and contemporary Indian philosophy. At Krea, he teaches courses on philosophical methods, ancient Greek philosophy and moral philosophy. Dr Radhakrishnan also translates influential philosophical texts into Tamil and is keen on seeing classical works of philosophy available in regional Indian languages.

SHEKHAR SINGH has taught at Shiv Nadar University and the University of Delhi.

He is currently the Executive Director at The Liberal Arts Centre. His research interests include social and political philosophy; philosophy of history; anti-foundationalism; theory-practice debate; normative theory and its critics; philosophy of Michael Oakeshott, Richard Rorty, Raymond Geuss.