Shaila Sultana is a Professor and the Director of the BRAC Institute of Languages, BRAC University, Bangladesh. Her recent publications include the co-authored book Popular Culture, Voice and Linguistic Diversity (2018) and co-edited handbooks, Routledge Handbook of English Language Education in Bangladesh (2021) and Language in Society in Bangladesh and Beyond (2024). She is on the editorial boards of several journals, including Language in Society, Journal of English-Medium Instruction, Ampersand and Journal of AsiaTEFL.Pramod K. Sah is a South Asian critical applied linguist whose research examines how colonial, liberal, and racist language ideologies shape socioemotional and educational inequalities. He worked as an Assistant Professor of English Language Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. He is an Honorary Associate in the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University, UK, and previously held positions at the University of Oxford and the University of Calgary. He is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Education, Language, and Ideology and Co-Editor of Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.