Assa Doron is Professor of Anthropology and South Asia at the Australian National University. He is the coauthor of Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India and The Great Indian Phone Book: How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life. Alex Broom is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney. He is the author of several books on the social dynamics of health, illness, and care, including Survivorship: A Sociology of Cancer in Everyday Life (with Katherine Kenny).