Thomas Jackson is a Research Fellow at India Foundation. While at Oxford he was elected president of the Oxford University Conservative Association

Prerna Singh Bindra is a conservationist and the author of The Vanishing: India’s Wildlife Crisis

Sanjaya Baru is a political commentator and policy analyst and author of, among other titles, 1991: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Made History and The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh

Pramod Kapoor is a publisher and the author of Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography

Iqbal Malhotra is chairman and producer, AIM Television Pvt. Ltd.

Chandrahas Choudhury is the author of three novels, most recently Days of My China Dragon

Sajjid Z Chinoy is Chief India Economist at JP Morgan. All views are personal

K Hariharan is professor, Film Studies and Broadcast Journalism at Ashoka University, Sonepat