Karthik Nachiappan is the author of Does India Negotiate?

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

Tavleen Singh is a leading columnist and writer.

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

Advaita Kala is a novelist and scriptwriter based in Delhi

Kunal Sen is professor of Development Economics IDPM, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester

V Ramnarayan lives in Chennai and writes on music and cricket

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

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

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

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