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Abhishek Poddar is the founder-trustee of the Museum of Art & Photography, Bengaluru

Ambika Kamath is a behavioural ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Jaithirth Rao is an entrepreneur and a social commentator

Rupika Chawla is an art conservator and author of Raja Ravi Varma: Painter of Colonial India. She is presently working on a book about the Ajanta caves

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

Mohit Hira is the Chief Executive & Publisher, Open magazine

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