Madhavankutty Pillai has no specialisations whatsoever. He is among the last of the generalists. And also Open chief of bureau, Mumbai  

Kaveree Bamzai is an author and a contributing writer with Open

S Prasannarajan is the Editor of Open magazine

Hartosh Singh Bal turned from the difficulty of doing mathematics to the ease of writing on politics. Unlike mathematics all this requires is being less wrong than most others who dwell on the subject.

Swapan Dasgupta is India's foremost conservative columnist. He is the author of Awakening Bharat Mata

PR Ramesh is Managing Editor of Open

Bibek Debroy has translated the Mahabharata and the Valmiki Ramayana into English. He is the Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister

Virendra Kapoor is a political commentator based in Delhi