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

Tavleen Singh is a leading columnist and writer.

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

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

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

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