Aditya Sinha is a journalist and writer

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

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

V Ramnarayan lives in Chennai and writes on music and cricket

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

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

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