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

Upamanyu Chatterjee’s novels include English, August : An Indian Story, The Mammaries of the Welfare State and Fairy Tales at Fifty

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

The author is professor of Indian history at Oxford

Mathangi Subramanian is the author of Dear Mrs Naidu

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

Sasanka Perera is Professor of Sociology and Dean of Social Science at South Asian University, New Delhi