Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s book Loss (HarperCollins India) releases in October

CP Rajendran is an Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru

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

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

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

François Gautier, a former international correspondent for Le Figaro, is the author of several books on India and its history, including In Defence of a Billion Hindus. He is also the founder of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History