Gautam Bhatia is a lawyer and research scholar at Oxford

Priyanka Dalal is a business growth consultant who has been travelling solo since 2009. She blogs at maproute.in

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

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

Rajeev Bhattacharyya is a Guwahati-based journalist

Swapna Liddle has written several books on the history of Delhi

Tunku Varadarajan is the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Fellow in Journalism at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is a regular contributor to Open

Advaita Kala is a novelist and scriptwriter based in Delhi