Prof. Amiya Kumar Das, Associate Professor, teaches sociology. He is the Head of Department od Sociology and the Coordinator of the Centre for Public Policy and Governance at Tezpur University, Assam.

His research interests include governance and development, sociology of health and illness, and traditional ecological knowledge. His recent publications include Investigating Developmentalism: Notions of Development in the Social Sphere (co-edited, 2019) and Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State: Perspectives from India’s Northeast (co-edited, 2021). He is also interested in sustainable farming and is a collaborator in the Feeding City Lab project at the University of Toronto.

Aparna is a 20something sustainable fashion & social media comms specialist, who hosts a podcast and reads books in her free time. Currently, she's pursuing an MBA in Sustainability Management from TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi. As she is trying to cultivate meaningful relationships with people in the current times, she decided to contribute to Anna's research and strangely found the whole process "therapeutic".

Prof. DNP is interested in the anthropology of emotions in South Asian context. He is a faculty of sociology at [...] in New Delhi, and previously taught at Hindu College (University of Delhi), Jamia Millia Islamia. He was also a visiting scholar at Brown International Advance Research Institute at Brown University, a Charles Wallace fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, a visiting scholar at Indian Institute of Advance Studies, Shimla. He authored several books. [anonymized due to GDPR]