Aruni Kashyap’s His Father's Disease and Other Stories will soon be published by Context/Westland

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

Amrita Narayanan is a Goa-based psychotherapist and writer

V Ramnarayan lives in Chennai and writes on music and cricket

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

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

Rajeev Bhattacharyya is a Guwahati-based journalist

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

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