Priyamvada Gopal is a member of the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge

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

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

Shivshankar Menon is a former national security advisor. He is the author of, among other titles, Choices: Inside the Making of India’s Foreign Policy

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

Maitreesh Ghatak is a professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science

James Astill is the Lexington columnist of The Economist and a 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