Amita Bhide is a Professor at Centre for Urban Policy and Governance (CUPG) at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (TISS). Her work draws significantly on her training in community organisation wherein research and action are intertwined. She has researched housing, governance, planning, sanitation, livelihoods and urban development issues from a perspective of equity and inclusion.

Himanshu Burte is an Associate Professor at Centre for Urban Science and Engineering (CUSE), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. An architect and urbanist, he seeks to map the complexities, possibilities, and justice of urban policy, planning and spatial practice through his research. He researches the spatiality of urban infrastructure, subaltern placemaking, and the critical practice of sustainable architecture in India.

Lalitha Kamath is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Urban Policy and Governance (CUPG), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (TISS). Her early work unpacked the politics and uneven impacts of urban reform processes, public participation and infrastructure projects. More recently, she focuses on the violence and dispossessions of property urbanism in the global south, but also the bottom-up agency of marginalised groups in unsettling dominant urbanisms.

Ratoola Kundu is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Urban Policy and Governance (CUPG) at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (TISS). Combining her training in urban planning and sociology, her research interests lie at the intersection of different trajectories of the production of urban space and the ways in which particular marginalised groups experience, contribute to and actively resist exclusionary forms of neoliberal urban transformations.