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

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

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

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

Charmy Harikrishnan is a Kerala-based journalist

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

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

Michael Kugelman is Deputy Director of the Asia Program and Senior Associate for South Asia at the Wilson Center, Washington DC

MG Radhakrishnan is a journalist based in Thiruvananthapuram