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

Jug Suraiya is a columnist with The Times of India

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

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

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

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

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

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