Anam Zakaria is the author of 1971: A People’s History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India; Between the Great Divide: A Journey into Pakistan-administered Kashmir; and The Footprints of Partition: Narratives of Four Generations of Pakistanis and Indians

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

Shyam Benegal is a filmmaker and screenwriter who was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1991 and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2005

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

Ekaterina Motyakina is a Moscow-based freelance journalist who writes on Russian culture and society

Andy Nicholls is the author of Scally: Confessions of a Category C Football Hooligan. The lifelong Everton fan has been banned from every ground in England and Wales, including a life ban at Goodison Park, Everton’s home ground

Mugil Bhaskar is a translator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He writes on economics, chess and football

Deepak Narayanan is a Goa-based freelance journalist

Mary Longhurst is managing director and founder of Epoch Strategic Communications