Aditya Sinha is a journalist and writer

Suresh Menon is Editor, Wisden India Almanack

Gautam Bhatia is a lawyer and research scholar at Oxford

Kanchan Gupta is a political analyst and chairman of Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation

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

Anjum Hasan is an author. Her most recent collection of short stories is A Day in the Life

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