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About the Author

Renny Thomas is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, India, and was the Taki Visiting Global Professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, New York, USA (2024–25). Before joining IISER, he taught Sociology at the University of Delhi (2015–21). He has been a Charles Wallace Fellow in Social Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK (2017–18) and a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Cultural History at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany (2022–23). He is the author of Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment (2021) and co-editor of Mapping Scientific Method: Disciplinary Narrations (2022).

Sasanka Perera is Chairman of the Colombo Institute for Human Sciences, and was Professor of Sociology at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and South Asian University (SAU), New Delhi. He is the author of several books including Violence and the Burden of Memory: Remembrance and Erasure in Sinhala Consciousness (2015), Warzone Tourism in Sri Lanka: Tales from Darker Places in Paradise (2016) and The Fear of the Visual? Photography, Anthropology and Anxieties of Seeing (2020). He has edited and co-edited various volumes including Sociology and Social Anthropology in South Asia: Histories and Practices (2018), Intersections of Contemporary Art, Anthropology and Art History in South Asia: Decoding Visual Worlds (2019), Against the Nation: Thinking Like South Asians (2019) and Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia: Anxiety, Laughter and Politics in Unstable Times (2022).