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

Payal Dhar is a freelance writer on technology and society, and an author of young adult books

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

Advaita Kala is a novelist and scriptwriter based in Delhi

Swapna Liddle has written several books on the history of Delhi

Aditi Sen is an Assistant Professor in History at Queen’s University, Canada

Karthik Nachiappan is the author of Does India Negotiate?

Kanchan Gupta is a political analyst and chairman of Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation