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

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

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

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

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