Jacob Copeman is research professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and a distinguished researcher (Oportunius). Arkotong Longkumer is a senior lecturer in modern Asia at the University of Edinburgh and a senior research fellow at the Kohima Institute, Nagaland. Koonal Duggal is a research fellow in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.

Gurus and Media considers the ways in which different kinds of gurus act as and engage with diverse forms of media, from print to film.