Parmjeet Singh Gazi emerged as a student leader who helped revive the Sikh Students Federation immediately following the Indian state’s brutal counterinsurgency. As an investigative journalist and editor of the Sikh Siyasat media platform, his work has been heavily influential on Panthic politics and sociopolitical issues in Punjab. Parmjeet Singh is also a legal scholar with expertise on the law of genocide, a documentary filmmaker, an environmentalist, and a grassroots Sikh activist for the past 20 years. You can follow and support his work via Twitter: @psgazi @sikhsiyasat @aecpunjab

Moninder Singh is a naujawan Panthic activist who for over 2 decades has been involved in Sikhi parchar internationally focusing on concepts of Patshahi and Raj as delivered to the Khalsa Panth by the Guru Sahiban. He has been involved in many Sikh organizations including being the Mukh Sevadar of Gurdwara Sahib Dasmesh Darbar in Surrey BC and the Spokesperson for the BC Gurdwaras Council.

From challenging the “2018 Public Report on the Terrorism Threat to Canada” in which the Sikh community was mentioned to the current Punjab Kisaan Movement’s need to recognize Sikhi as the inspiration and guiding force in order for it to be successful, Moninder Singh has remained an active participant and voice on the front lines of issues impacting Sikhs in the diaspora. Moninder Singh has graduated from the Lang School of Business at the University of Guelph with a Master of Arts in Leadership Studies.

Prabjot Singh is a writer and panthic activist who has been involved in Sikh student organizations, panthic jathebandiyan and grassroots political movements for over fifteen years. He has an MA in South Asian Studies from SOAS, University of London where he focussed on the intellectual history of the Khalistan movement. His ongoing work on Sikh political theory has been published on a number of platforms based in Punjab as well as the diaspora.

Prabjot Singh also received a law degree from the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, and is a member of the Law Society of Saskatchewan. He articled with a superior court in Canada and subsequently worked with a prominent criminal defence firm defending the rights of clients from marginalized backgrounds. He is interested in transnational criminal law, particularly around questions of national security, human rights, and the racialization of “terror” offences.

Bhai Mandhir Singh is a farmer and naujawan panthic sewadar who has been involved in Sikh organizations and movements for over two decades. He is one of the founding members of the Samvad collective which is known for hosting public seminars and discussions in Punjab. He has been actively observing and participating in the current kisaan-majdoor morcha since its beginning.

He served as a former President of the Sikh Students’ Federation and has been recently spearheading efforts to revitalize grassroots collective decision-making within the Panth, and Punjab more broadly. An engineering graduate with higher education from Canada, he returned to Punjab to continue his Panthic seva. His articles and public talks regularly appear on Sikh Siyasat, Samvad, and many other Panthic platforms.

Dr. Gian Singh is a former professor of Economics at Punjabi University Patiala. He is a renowned expert of Punjab’s agrarian economy and the challenges/crises facing multidimensional crisis requiring political will.

100s of his published research papers are on indebtedness, crisis in rural economy, poverty and indebtedness among small and marginal farmers, and distribution of income among women labour households. He is one of the most important voices of Punjab who can talk about agrarian crisis and agrarian reforms.

Navyug Gill is a scholar of modern South Asia and global history. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at William Paterson University. His research explores questions of agrarian change, political economy, labor history, postcolonial critique and global capital. Currently he is completing a book manuscript on caste, labor and peasant politics in colonial Panjab. His academic and popular writings have appeared in venues such as the Journal of Asian Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, Radical Teacher, Outlook Magazine and Al Jazeera.

Suchitra Vijayan was born and raised in Madras, India.. A Barrister by training, she previously worked for the United Nations war crimes tribunals in Yugoslavia and Rwanda before co-founding the Resettlement Legal Aid Project in Cairo, which gives legal aid to Iraqi refugees. She is an award-winning photographer, the founder and executive director of the Polis Project, a hybrid research and journalism organization. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, GQ, The Boston Review, The Hindu, and Foreign Policy. Her book Midnight’s Border will be published in Feb, 2021.

Gurinder Azad is a poet, writer, and a documentary film maker. Gurinder was born and raised in Punjab, he dedicated his life for Bahujan activism. He is an editor of Hindi section of Round Table India. His work appears in Round Table India, Forward Press, and Sikh Siyasat. He wrote a poetry book named 'Conditions Apply'. He currently resides in Delhi.

Dr Kanwaljit Singh is a panthic Sevadar and the interim principal at Sri Guru Angad Dev College Khadur Sahib, he was previously the head of the Punjabi Department at Sri Guru Angad Dev College. His Ph.D addressed ‘Myth transformation in immigrant punjabi poetry from Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar.

Harsha Walia is the author of the upcoming book Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. She is also the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism, co-author of Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration as well as Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Harsha has organized in migrant justice, anti-capitalist, feminist, abolitionist, and anti-imperialist movements for the past two decades. She has been involved in grassroots movements including No One Is Illegal, Defenders of the Land, and Women’s Memorial March. She is the past Project Coordinator of the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre and current Executive Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association.

Gurdeep Singh is a prominent youth leader and research scholar in Panjab University, Chandigarh. He currently studies in centre for human rights and duties of Panjab University. He is currently contributing in Singhu Morcha with a portable library to spread awareness among protesting farmers and labourers about their rights and challenges in the society.

Hamir Singh is a senior journalist with over two decades of reporting experience. He covers a wide range of topics, from farming issues and agrarian economy to Punjab politics. He has been observing and writing about the current kisaan morcha since its beginning.

He graduated from Punjabi University, Patiala and currently works as news coordinator with the Punjabi Tribune. His detailed research articles and public talks about water issues, farmer suicides, and systemic degeneration of Punjab’s village communities appear in leading Punjabi news outlets and Panthic platforms.