Harsh V Pant is Vice President for Studies and Foreign Policy at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, and Professor of International Relations at King’s College London

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

Aseem Shrivastava is the co-author of Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India

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

Amrita Narayanan is a Goa-based psychotherapist and writer

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

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