Dileep Premachandran is a sports columnist for The Independent, Mint Lounge and Arab News. He was formerly editor-in-chief of Wisden India

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

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

MG Radhakrishnan is a journalist based in Thiruvananthapuram

Seema Sirohi is a Washington-based columnist and the author of Friends with Benefits: The India-US Story

Charmy Harikrishnan is a Kerala-based journalist

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

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

Rimli Sengupta is a willing refugee from engineering academia who has recently taken to writing. She writes in both Bengali and English.