Stephen David is a Bengaluru-based writer specialising in public policy, politics and religion

TM Krishna is a Carnatic vocalist, the author of A Southern Music, and a writer on contemporary issues

Ravi Joshi was formerly in the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)

Murali Balaji is director of Education and Curriculum Reform at the Hindu American Foundation. A Fulbright Specialist and former journalist, he had previously taught at Temple University, Lincoln University and Penn State University

Tabish Khair has just published The New Xenophobia (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Aditya Sinha is a journalist and writer

Edward Luttwak is an American military historian and political scientist. His latest book is The Rise of China vs the Logic of Strategy

Gautam Bhatia is a lawyer and research scholar at Oxford

Lov Verma is a former health secretary, Government of India

Priyanka Dalal is a business growth consultant who has been travelling solo since 2009. She blogs at maproute.in