About the Editors Brigadier Pranadhar Gaur (Retd), VSM. Ph.D. is a veteran soldier, social activist, scholar, and writer. He is a graduate of the Indian Military Academy and holds M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in International Relations from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in India. Pran has four generations and over 100 years of military service in his family. Commissioned into the 4/9 Gorkha Rifles he has 34 years of exemplary service in the Indian Army. A voracious reader, an animal rights activist, he is an enduring fitness enthusiast. In 1988, he led a 700 kilometers, six-month Himalayan trek from Srinagar to Siachen Glacier. Dr. Roopali Sircar Gaur is a lifelong teacher, poet-performer, writer, environmentalist, and social justice activist, who comes from a family of four generations and over 100 years in military service. Roopali retired as Associate Professor of English from Delhi University. She is a widely published columnist and writer, featured in several publications worldwide. Her poems are also housed at Stanford University’s Digital Humanities initiative, Life in Quarantine: Witnessing Global Pandemic, and in the University of Bath’s Transnational project. Dr. Pragya Bajpai is a Central Government Officer serving on the faculty of English at the prestigious National Defence Academy, Ministry of Defence, India. She is editor and designer of the international e-magazine Brahmand: Voice of the Cosmos for creative writing. Her book, A Potpourri of Proverbs (2021) is a collection of poems based on English proverbs. Most recently, Pragya has co-edited Unkahi: The Unsung (2021), a collection of poems from the Armed Forces to commemorate India’s 75th year of Independence. Niharika Chibber Joe is an Army Brat. She is a United States civil service officer and is a prize-winning published poet and short story writer.