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

Ashish Sharma is an award-winning photojournalist with a lens that captures the 'moment' in its minutest detail. With over a decade in photojournalism, he is currently Deputy Photo Editor at Open Magazine

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

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

Madhav Khosla teaches law and politics at Columbia Law School, US, and Ashoka University.

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

Lov Verma is a former health secretary, Government of India

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

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

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