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

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

Aman Nath is an author, architectural restorer and co-founder of Neemrana Hotels

Lov Verma is a former health secretary, Government of India

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

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

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

Suresh Menon is Editor, Wisden India Almanack