Aditya Sinha is a journalist and writer

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

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

Aruni Kashyap’s His Father's Disease and Other Stories will soon be published by Context/Westland

V Ramnarayan lives in Chennai and writes on music and cricket

Advaita Kala is a novelist and scriptwriter based in Delhi

James Astill is the Lexington columnist of The Economist and a contributor to Open

Aditi Sen is an Assistant Professor in History at Queen’s University, Canada

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