Suhel Seth is Managing Partner of Counselage India and can be reached at suhel@counselage.com

The writer teaches at the Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities, Sonipat, Haryana

Pallavi Aiyar is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has spent the last two decades reporting from China, Europe, Indonesia and Japan. Her most recent book is Orienting: An Indian in Japan. She is a contributor to Open

Shashi Tharoor is a Congress MP. He is the author of, among other titles, The Struggle for India’s Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy and Ambedkar: A Life

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Dr Ambrish Mithal is Chairman, Endocrinology and Diabetes, Max Healthcare

Arshia Sattar is an author and translator. Her most recent translation is Tales from the Kathasaritsagara

Keerthik Sasidharan lives in New York and is the author of The Dharma Forest