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

Aseem Shrivastava is the co-author of Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tavleen Singh is a leading columnist and writer.