Julia Shrestha is a doctoral candidate at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, and a researcher in the project ‘Documents on the History of Religion and Law of Pre-modern Nepal’ at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

निर्मल श्रेष्ठ पाल्पालमा रहेर इतिहास अन्वेषण गर्ने इतिहासकार हुन्। उनका इतिहाससम्बन्धी आधा दर्जन बढी पुस्तक प्रकाशित छन्।

Slesh A. Shrestha is an independent researcher based in Kathmandu, Nepal. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Michigan. 

Birsana Shrestha currently works as a researcher at Martin Chautari. She is also engaged as an educator for first-year undergraduate students. Her research interests lie in social science issues.

बुटवलमा रहेर अनुसन्धान र अध्यापन गर्ने रामचन्द्र श्रेष्ठ समाज अध्येता हुन्। बुटवलको सुकुमबासी बस्तीबारे अनुसन्धान लेख प्रकाशन गरेका श्रेष्ठका समाज र राजनीतिबारेका लेख विभिन्न सञ्चारमाध्यममा प्रकाशित छन्।

Alisha Sijapati is a writer, advocate, and cultural heritage practitioner whose work examines the intersections of restorative justice, human emotion, and material history. With more than a decade of experience in journalism, her reporting has appeared in the Nepali Times, The Kathmandu Post, and The Himalayan Times. 

Bhim Prasad Subedi is a Professor of Geography and former Chairperson of the University Grants Commission (UGC), Nepal.

अनुसन्धाता एवं अधिवक्ता सुदेश्ना थापा अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय मानव अधिकार कानूनकी जानकार हुन्। उनी द कमन्स की सम्पादकीय समूहकी सदस्य पनि हुन्।

हिमालखबर, कान्तिपुर टेलिभिजनलगायत संस्थामा काम गरेका तिमल्सिना हाल नेपालन्युजमा आबद्ध छन्। उनी विशेषगरी अनुवाद र चलचित्र समीक्षा विधामा कलम चलाउँछन्।

Kusumlata Tiwari’s research focuses on political anthropology, with a particular emphasis on marginalisation studies, including Madhesis, Dalits, indigenous communities, and women.

Mark Turin is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia in Western Canada where he is cross-appointed between the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. He has worked in Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim since 1991.

Rachan Upadhyaya is a PhD student at the University of Bristol. Her PhD research explores the production of flood risk and vulnerability in the riparian region of Kathmandu Valley.

Kåre Vollan has a long experience working on elections in more than 30 countries and has published extensively on representation issues, in particular after conflicts. 

John Whelpton is a researcher on Nepali history and politics who was a college lecturer with Tribhuvan University from 1972 to 1974 and has lived in Hong Kong since 1987.

Yogendra Prasad Yadava is a linguist and Professor Emeritus at Tribhuvan University. The author or editor of twenty-two books, Yadava has been central to the development of Himalayan linguistics and instrumental in initiating the Linguistic Survey of Nepal.