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

Kunal Sen is professor of Development Economics IDPM, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester

Patrick French is a historian and biographer. He is presently writing the authorised biography of the novelist Doris Lessing

Aseem Shrivastava is the co-author of Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India

Harsh V Pant is Vice President for Studies and Foreign Policy at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, and Professor of International Relations at King’s College London

Hormis Tharakan is a former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing