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

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

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

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

V Ramnarayan lives in Chennai and writes on music and cricket

Karthik Nachiappan is the author of Does India Negotiate?

Swapna Liddle has written several books on the history of Delhi

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

Tavleen Singh is a leading columnist and writer.