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

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

Jaithirth Rao is an entrepreneur and a social commentator

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

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

Mehr Tarar is a well-known Pakistani columnist

Bhakti Shringarpure is assistant professor of English at University of Connecticut and editor-in-chief of Warscapes magazine