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)

The author is a Director at Harrisons Malayalam and a former president of the United Planters’ Association of Southern India

Matthew J Kuiper is a historian and researcher at the Religious Studies Department of Missouri State University, USA

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

The author is a Founding Partner at 3one4 Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Bengaluru

Chanda Chaudhary is a blogger, decor stylist and an avid traveller

Surjit S Bhalla, a former executive director at IMF, has served on the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister and is the author of, among other titles, Citizen Raj

Olivier Roy is one of the world’s foremost scholars of political Islam and is the author of Jihad and Death: The Global Appeal of Islamic State

Veena Hariharan teaches cinema studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and recently curated the festival Quirky New Wave from the South: The films of Lijo Jose Pellissery