Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

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

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

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

Tunku Varadarajan is a fellow at New York University Law School’s Classical Liberal Institute

Dhiraj Nayyar is chief economist, Vedanta Ltd, and the author of Modi and Markets: Arguments for Transformation

Somak Ghoshal is an editor and writer based in Bengaluru

Nanditha Krishna is a historian and an environmentalist, and director of the CPR Institute of Indological Research in Chennai. She has co-written Madras Then Chennai Now (2014)

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground