Payal Dhar is a freelance writer on technology and society, and an author of young adult books

Tavleen Singh is a leading columnist and writer.

Karthik Nachiappan is the author of Does India Negotiate?

Advaita Kala is a novelist and scriptwriter based in Delhi

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

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

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

Aruni Kashyap’s His Father's Disease and Other Stories will soon be published by Context/Westland

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