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

Prayaag Akbar is the author of the novel Leila

Simon Kuper is one of the world’s foremost writers on football and a columnist with The Financial Times. His books include, among others, Football Against the Enemy; Soccernomics; The Football Men; and Barça: The Inside Story of the World’s Greatest Football Club

Manoj Joshi is a Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, Delhi

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

Nandhu Sundaram is an Ooty-based freelance journalist

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