Debasish Roy Chowdhury has written extensively on Indian politics and society and geopolitics.
He is renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy, and is the author of a number of distinguished books including The Life and Death of Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2009) and The New Despotism (Harvard University Press, 2020)..
John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and the WZB (Berlin).
He is a Jefferson Fellow and a recipient of multiple prizes, including the Human Rights Press Award, the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) award and the Hong Kong News Award.
A journalist based in Hong Kong, he has lived and worked in Calcutta, Sao Paulo, Bangkok, and Beijing.
Debasish Roy Chowdhury has written extensively on Indian politics and society and geopolitics