Maalan Narayanan is a Chennai-based journalist

Deepthi Murali is a PhD scholar in the art history program at the University of Illinois

Jagdish N Sheth is the Charles H Kellstadt Professor of Business at Goizueta Business School, Emory University, US

Leo Saldanha works with Environment Support Group in Bangalore

Parag Khanna is a Senior Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and author of Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State (2017), Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016) and The Second World (2008)

Kanishk Tharoor is the author of Swimmer Among the Stars