Krishnan Unni P is a professor in English at Deshbandhu College, Delhi University

Parvati Sharma is the author of, most recently, Jahangir: An Intimate Portrait of a Great Mughal

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

Prayaag Akbar is the author of the novel Leila

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

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

Ananya Vajpeyi works at the intersection of intellectual history, political theory and critical philology. She is writing a book about the modern life of Sanskrit

Anjum Hasan is an author. Her most recent collection of short stories is A Day in the Life