Alok Prasanna Kumar is an advocate and co-founder of the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy

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

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

Nalin Mehta is a political scientist and journalist

Rahul Bhattacharya is the author of Pundits from Pakistan and The Sly Company of People Who Care

Dr MV Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Mitali Parekh is a Mumbai-based journalist

Manjula Padmanabhan is an author and artist