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

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

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

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

Advaita Kala is a novelist and scriptwriter based in Delhi

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

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

Basharat Peer is a staff writer at the New York Times and the author of A Question of Order: Strongmen and Illiberal Democracies

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