**Arundhati Roy *'s books include, most recently, Listening to Grasshoppers . Pankaj Mishra's new book, The Revolt Against the West , is coming out in 2011. Hilal Bhattwas born in Srinigar and is a freelance Kashmiri journalist.Angana P. Chatterjiis Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cal...

**Arundhati Roy *'s books include, most recently, Listening to Grasshoppers . Pankaj Mishra's new book, The Revolt Against the West , is coming out in 2011. Hilal Bhattwas born in Srinigar and is a freelance Kashmiri journalist.Angana P. Chatterjiis Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, California Institute of Integral Studies and Co-convener of the International People's Tribunal in Indian-administered Kashmir.Tariq Aliis a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics--including Pirates of the Caribbean *, Bush in Babylon, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome--as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London.