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

David Davidar is a novelist, publisher, editor and anthologist. He has been an attentive reader of Indian fiction for nearly forty years

C Christine Fair is a professor at Georgetown University in the Security Studies Center. She is the author of Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States; Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War; and In Their Own Words: Understanding the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba

Amrita Tripathi has been a JLF regular for too long, a cynic for even longer, and is the author of two novels, The Sibius Knot and Broken News

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

Aditya Sinha is a journalist and writer

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

Suresh Menon is Editor, Wisden India Almanack

A Damodaran is a faculty member at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

Gautam Bhatia is a lawyer and research scholar at Oxford