Conversations from The Sovereign Forest: On Comprehending Crime

Usha Ramanathan, based in Delhi, is a legal scholar working on the jurisprudence of law, poverty and rights. She researches, writes and speaks on issues that include the Bhopal Gas Disaster, mass displacement, eminent domain, surveillance, civil liberties, beggary, criminal law, custodial institutions, the environment and the judicial process.

Sudha Bharadwaj has a M.Sc. in Maths from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and is a lawyer in the High Court of Chhattisgarh. She has been involved as an activist with the trade union movement in Chhattisgarh for more than two decades. She is part of a group of lawyers called "Janhit" based in Bilaspur who provide legal support to people's struggles particularly in regard to land acquisition, forest rights and environmental protection.

Vrinda Grover is a lawyer, researcher and human rights activist based in New Delhi, India. Vrinda practices in the Supreme Court of India and has appeared in landmark human rights cases representing victims and survivors of communal massacre, extrajudicial killings, custodial torture, domestic and sexual violence; sexual minorities; trade unions and political activists. Her research and writing probes the impunity of the state.