Bihani Sarkar (Foreword) (D.Phil, M.Phil, BA First Class Oxon.) lectures in Religious Studies: Hinduism and Buddhism at the University of Winchester, is an Associate Faculty Member of the Oriental Institute at the University of Oxford and a Research Member of the Senior Common Room, Wolfson College, University of Oxford. Her teaching covers classical Sanskrit and Indian religions, literature, history and civilization. She has published many articles and her books include Heroic Shāktism: the Cult of Durgā in Ancient Indian Kingship and Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Pathos and Suffering in Medieval India.

F. Tara Hathaway (Contributing Editor) is a doctoral research student at The Queen's College, University of Oxford, where she was the John P. Clay Scholar from 2018–2021. She was previously at Balliol College, University of Oxford, where she gained her undergraduate and masters degrees. She is working on an English language translation and comparative analysis of two Sanskrit plays (Kṣemīśvara's Naiṣadhānanda and Rājaśekhara's Bālabhārata) for her doctoral thesis. Her research focuses on literary adaptation; the interplay between oral and written literatures; and multilingualism in Sanskrit dramaturgy.