The Road from Ayodhya: Muslim Inclusion in a New India

Basharat Peer is a Kashmiri journalist and the author of the acclaimed memoir Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist’s Account of Life, Love, and War in his Homeland (Scribner, 2010). As an Open Society Fellow, Peer began research on a comprehensive history of India's 154 million Muslims—one of the largest religious minorities in the world. Peer is compiling the stories of individuals and places to illuminate the challenges posed by religious violence, prejudice, and systemic injustice to democracy and human rights in contemporary India.

Peer has worked as an editor at Foreign Affairs and served as a correspondent at Tehelka, an English-language investigative newsweekly. He has contributed to Granta, the New Statesman, the Nation, the Financial Times Magazine, the Guardian, and the Times of India, among other publications. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.

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Amrit Singh joined the Open Society Justice Initiative in 2009 as the senior legal officer for national security and counterterrorism. 

Previously, she served as a staff attorney at the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. She was counsel, among other cases, in ACLU v. Dep’t of Defense, which resulted in the public disclosure of thousands of documents concerning the abuse of prisoners held by the U.S. overseas.  She is co-author (with Jameel Jaffer) of Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond (Columbia University Press, 2007). 

Prior to joining the ACLU, Singh served as a law clerk to the Hon. Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.  Before embarking on her legal career, she was an economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of Cambridge University, Oxford University, and the Yale Law School.