Lov Verma is a former health secretary, Government of India

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

Ashish Sharma is an award-winning photojournalist with a lens that captures the 'moment' in its minutest detail. With over a decade in photojournalism, he is currently Deputy Photo Editor at Open Magazine

Vamsee Juluri is Professor of Media Studies, University of San Francisco

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

V Ramnarayan lives in Chennai and writes on music and cricket

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

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

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