Dr. Mubashar Hasan is currently a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, Norway. His forthcoming co-edited book is Radicalization in South Asia: Context, Trajectories and Implication  (Sage, 2019). His recently published article is Bangladeshi ‘Boat People’: Context, Drivers And Policy Implications. He tweets at @mubashardhaka

Dr. Arild Engelsen Ruud is a Professor of South Asia Studies, University of Oslo, Norway. He is also the Head of Research at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the Univeristy of Oslo. His latest co-authored book  Mafia Raj: Rule of Bosses in South Asia was published by the Stanford University Press in 2018.