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

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

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

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

Gautam Bhatia is a lawyer and research scholar at Oxford

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

Lov Verma is a former health secretary, Government of India