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

Mark Tully is a veteran broadcaster and author

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

Riyas Komu is a Mumbai-based artist, curator and educationist. He co-founded the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Shakti Sinha is director, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi

Pritish Nandy is a poet, journalist and filmmaker

Amit Chaudhuri is an author and musician. His most recent book is Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music

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