Gautam Chikermane is a Vice President at Observer Research Foundation. His latest books are Reading Sri Aurobindo (Penguin, 2022) and Reform Nation (HarperCollins, 2022)

Suhrith Parthasarathy is an advocate practising at the Madras High Court

Sabin Iqbal is a journalist, novelist and literary curator. He curates Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters. His third novel, Tales from Qabristan, will be published soon

Charmy Harikrishnan is a Kerala-based journalist

Manvendra Singh writes on defence and the Middle East. He was a member of the parliamentary standing committee on defence in the 14th Lok Sabha

MG Radhakrishnan is a journalist based in Thiruvananthapuram

KR Meera is a Malayalam author. The Angel’s Beauty Spots is her latest work, a collection of three novellas, translated into English

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

Tridip Suhrud is India’s foremost Gandhi scholar and the translator of the diaries of Manu Gandhi, the Mahatma’s grandniece

Jug Suraiya is a columnist with The Times of India

Chetan Narula is the author of Skipper: A Definitive Account of India’s Greatest Captains